In a guest post, Professor Russell Sandberg looks at a rather unusual ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority. Professor Russell Sandberg The criminal offence of blasphemy
is dead. It was unceremoniously abolished by section 79(1) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. [...]
The U.S. Tax Court Lunchtime Webinar Series, Historical Perspective of the Tax Court, A Discussion with Former Chief Judges (registration): Please join the current and former
United States Tax Court Chief Judges in a webinar discussion on historical perspectives of the Court. [...]
Next week, states will convene in Busan, South Korea, for the fifth – and in theory final – session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international
legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The INC was established by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in March 2022 and has been meeting for [...]
22 octobre 2024. France. Critique de l’ouvrage Le monde nazi : 1919-1945 de Johann Chapoutot, Christian Ingrao et Nicolas Patin paru chez Tallandier. Cet article de Libération
présente cet ouvrage issu de la pluridisciplinarité de ses auteurs, les avancées qu’il apporte à la matière mais aussi ses [...]
(https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/10/15/reed-brody-pourquoi-m-a-t-on-expulse-duhtml) (https://www.ohchr.org/fr/news/2024/10/experts-committee-elimination-discrimination-against-womenpraise-chiles-laws-violence)
(https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2024/10/15/rwanda-torture-et-mauvais-traitements-en-detention) [...]
Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to the William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation
Prize ("awarded annually to the best dissertation in any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies"). [...]
From Cambridge University Press, here is a new source book on Islamic Law, Islamic Law in Context: A Primary Source Reader. The book covers Islamic legal reasoning generally
and several topics specifically, such as diet, family life, contracts, and criminal law. [...]
This CBS News piece reports on a high-profile murderer being denied her bid for parole today after having served 30 years in prison. Here are the basics: A parole board
decided unanimously Wednesday that Susan Smith should remain in prison, despite her plea that God has forgiven her for infamously killing her two young sons 30 years [...]
Thank you to Stephen for taking the lead in resurrecting this terrific blog, and for welcoming me to be a contributor. This is sure to be a lot of fun! Speaking of fun, I hope
readers of the blog will... [...]
The University of Michigan Law School is hosting the 2025 Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, July 9-11, 2025. The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together
academics, judges, lawmakers, practitioners, and any other type of legal storyteller. [...]
