“Defence of the weak and vulnerable can easily flip to defence of a leadership cadre…” School worship in Scotland S.9 Education (Scotland) Act 1980 gives parents the
right to withdraw their children from religious observance, and the Scottish Government is proposing to amend the law to oblige schools to take the children’s views [...]
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Applications Sustainability and Public Law: The “Sustainability and Public Law” PhD project, part of the Radboud Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), would [...]
Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, University of Notre Dame, is publishing The "Crusading Fanatics" of American Law: American Jesuits and the Origins of the Neo-Scholastic Legal Revival,
1870-1960 in the Journal of Law and Religion. Here is the abstract. [...]
President Donald Trump may be preparing to issue an Executive Order (E.O.) purporting to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and fold some or all
of its functions into the State Department, according to reporting that emerged on Friday, Jan. [...]
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Paul Robinson and Hugh Rennie now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: News accounts routinely report
the sentences imposed by judges and there are commonly debates over their propriety that can shift public attitudes and have political consequences. [...]
A helpful reader flagged an interesting concurring opinion in a case from Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeals which showcases a potental state echo from the Supreme Court's
recent Sixth Amendment ruling in US v. Erlinger. At issue is application of Florida's "prison releasee reoffender" (PRR) statute which imposes increased punishment [...]
Background In Sleeper v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2025] EWHC 151 (KB), Mr Ian Sleeper was a street preacher. In June 2017, he was preaching outside Southwark
Cathedral and he had two large handwritten signs with him, reading “LOVE MUSLIMS BAN ISLAM THE RELIGION OF TERROR!” and “#LOVE MUSLIMS HATE ISLAM JESUS IS LOVE [...]
The PRIVIGO project (“International Organizations between Mission and Market”), sponsored by the European Research Council and located at the Erik Castrén Institute, has
issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Legal Aspects of Interactions between International Organizations and the Private Sector," to take place May 23, 2025, [...]
(image source: University of Szeged) The organising committee of the 8th ESCLH Biennial Conference, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged, 2-3 JUL 2025) has
launched a website containing information on accommodation, travelling, membership fee and registration fee. [...]
(image source: AUP) (image source: AUP) Redactioneel (Bram Van Hofstraeten & Paul Brood)DOI 15667146/bro10.5117/PROM2024.2.001.REDAse Redactioneel (Bram Van Hofstraeten
& Paul Brood)DOI [...]
