Nach langer taktischer Verzögerung hatte das FDP-geführte Bundesjustizministerium (BMJ) den Gesetzesentwurf zur Verlängerung der Mietpreisbremse Mitte Oktober endlich auf
den Weg gebracht. Kurz darauf platzte die Regierungskoalition. Das Schicksal des Gesetzesentwurfs ist seitdem offen. [...]
Abstract: In-person papers: Online participation: The Conference will be held in plenary style so there will be a limited number of spaces, however the conference will
be open to attendance by all. We may have a second call for online participation in the new year. [...]
In a guest post, Professor Satvinder Juss[1] looks at a recent Australian case on the right of observant Sikhs to carry a kirpan. Professor Satvinder Juss Western thinking
about objects in the physical world is rooted in the concept of essences. Ironically, a Sikh kirpan, viewed from this perspective, deprives it of its essential attributes. [...]
Washington Post, Musk’s ‘DOGE’ Commission Eyes New App for Americans to File Taxes: The leaders of President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency”
have discussed trying to create a mobile app for Americans to file their taxes free with the Internal Revenue Service, according to two people who spoke on... [...]
Press Release, New Research Shares Trends in Legal Education over the Past 20 Years: BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Newly released data from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement
(LSSSE) provides a compelling look at changes and trends in legal education from 2004 to 2024. [...]
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity promises nothing short of a new history of humanity. Graeber, an anthropologist
who, until his death in 2020, served as a professor at the LSE, and Wengrow, an archaeology professor at University College London, use recent scholarship in anthropology [...]
The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our Tax Policy Conference on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 July
2025 . The topic of the conference is 'Legal perspectives on the development and enactment of tax policy' . [...]
The Faculty is delighted at the announcement that Nicky Padfield , Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, has been appointed as one of a panel
of experts appointed to support a new Government criminal sentencing review, which was announced yesterday . [...]
Aix Marseille Université has published a new book by John Spencer and Akila Taleb-Karlsson, Le système de justice pénale de l’Angleterre et du Pays de Galles (The Criminal
Justice System of England and Wales) . English criminal procedure, in force in England and Wales, is the origin of all common law criminal procedures... [...]
Edward Elgar Publishing has published the Research Handbook on the History of Trademark Law edited by Lionel Bently and Robert G. Bone (G. Rollie White Chair Emeritus in Law,
The University of Texas School of Law). Presenting a variety of historiographical approaches, this Research Handbook explores the historical development of trademarks [...]
