Carolina Academic Press announced that it is about to publish a new edition of Plain English for Lawyers, the classic text originally authored by Richard Wydick and now updated
by Amy Sloan. As the CAP website states: Plain English for... [...]
Carolina Academic Press announced that it is about to publish a new edition of Plain English for Lawyers, the classic text originally authored by Richard Wydick and now updated
by Amy Sloan. As the CAP website states: Plain English for... [...]
This year sees the launch of two books that exposes the philosophical foundations of the police and how the socio-political idea of the police is crucial to modern world-making.
A Philosophical History of Police Power (Bloomsbury) by Melayna Lamb (University of Law) and Everything Is Police (University of Minnesota Press) by Tia Trafford [...]
Apparently, we might no longer live in the Anthropocene. Such was the result of a formal vote by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission
on Stratigraphy (SQS), issued on the 5th of March 2024, who oversee and administer 4.5 billion years of sedimentary accumulation on Earth. [...]
Die Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft ist ein stetig wachsendes Forschungsgebiet im Spannungsfeld von allmählicher wissenschaftlicher Durchdringung und teils hitziger Reformdiskussion.
Dafür sind belastbare empirische Erkenntnisse besonders wichtig, um beurteilen zu können, welche didaktischen Innovationen hilfreich sind, wo Verbesserungspotentiale [...]
If evidence of empirical legal studies’ growth was not already obvious enough in the peer-reviewed journal world, traditional student-edited law reviews also evidence a turn
toward ELS as well. And no more so than perhaps the Northwestern University Law Review which is pleased to announce its 7th annual issue dedicated to empirical legal [...]
Most empirical judicial decisionmaking scholarship on federal circuit courts tries to exploit something close to quasi-random assignments to three-judge appellate panels. While
attention typically focuses on judge votes, in a recent paper, Partisan Panel Composition and Reliance on Earlier Opinions in the Circuit Courts, Stuart Minor Benjamin [...]
The law organises its operations in highly visual forms; it carefully curates and cultivates its own scopic regime. From courtroom architecture and rituals to ornate judicial
costumes, law relies on images to convey its sovereignty, power, authority, legitimacy, authenticity and majesty. [...]
Co-organized by Bernie Black (Northwestern) and Scott Cunningham (Baylor—econ), the 13th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference will be held at Northwestern
Law School in Chicago, IL. Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 29--August 2, 2024; Advanced Workshop: Sunday -- Wednesday, August 4-7, 2024. [...]
Book Series: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South Book editor: Nicolás Panotto nicolaspanotto@gmail.com Series
editors: Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado Araujo, Angus McDonald, James Martel Discussions around secularization have gained an increasingly relevant place [...]
This was originally a talk, prepared for the Pashukanis @100 conference, with an afterword post-ICJ interim order of 26 January 2024. In some ways it is ironic and in other
ways entirely appropriate that the Pashukanis @100 event falls on the very days that South Africa is challenging Israel in the International Court of Justice on [...]