[Dr Alison Bisset is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading School of Law] The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International

Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes was adopted in May [...]

Following up on Monday's post, New York Times: Turmoil At University Of Florida Law School After Adjunct Professor Federal Judge Gives Book Award To White Nationalist Antisemitic

Student For His Racist Paper: Statement From University of Florida Law School Dean: Dear Alumni and Friends, Many of you may have seen... [...]

Amid escalating federal pressure on universities, Stanford Law School alum Greg Lukianoff, JD ’00, joins host Professor Pam Karlan for a sharp look at the free speech firestorms

engulfing universities like Harvard and Columbia. First Amendment champion, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and co-author [...]

von ERIC RÜCKER Die israelischen und US-amerikanischen Angriffe gegen den Iran sind rechtswidrig. Die öffentliche Debatte verlagert sich dennoch auf eine moralisch-politische

Ebene, die die Bedrohung voraussetzt, aber nicht problematisiert, sondern funktionalisiert. [...]

As reported in this AP piece, the "longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s

wife in a violent ransom scheme." Here is more: Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were [...]

The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new article by Keith Humphreys in The Atlantic headlined "America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff."

I recommend the article in full because there are nuances to the argument not captured in excerpts.  But here are excerpts: For more than 40 years, the United States [...]

The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […] The post Forever no more? Between new and old

worlds appeared first on Allegra Lab. [...]

On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […] The post Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment appeared first on

Allegra Lab. [...]

While the U.S. is discussing a 10-year moratorium on all federal AI legislation (‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’), many countries around the world are – in very different

ways – legislating on AI (see global map). In the absence of a U.S. regulatory model, do countries with their own AI Bills (Japan) and AI Bill proposals (Brazil) [...]

Vincent Beyer (UN Trade and Development), International Investment Agreements and the Global Minimum Tax: Of Treaty Troubles and Investment Incentives, 27 J. Int'l Econ. L.

241 (2024): Statutory and effective tax rates have witnessed a marked decline over the past decades, prompting international tax policymakers to grapple with the [...]