Jay A. Soled (Rutgers; Google Scholar) & Leslie Book (Villanova; Google Scholar), Transformative Technology and Shortening the Statute of Limitations Applicable to Taxpayers,
60 U. Rich. L. Rev. ___ (2025): When it comes to submitting tax returns and paying taxes, most taxpayers understand the nature of their civic duties and... [...]
En application de l’article 3 du décret n° 2021-1205 du 17 septembre 2021, les caractéristiques de la signature et du Sceau de la légalisation apposés par les instances
notariales et leurs délégués et par le ministère de l’Europe et des affaires étrangères sur les actes publics français faisant l’objet d’une délivrance [...]
In his book Freedom a Disease Without Cure, (2023), Slavoj Žižek draws a lengthy critique of my article “Many Worlds Interpretation, Critical Theory and the (Immanent)
Paradox of Power.” The critique stands on a tripod (we will develop below). 1. Difference necessitates pre-existing identities, 2. [...]
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’
What role, if any, do human rights courts have in the protection of the natural world? [...]
Editor’s NoteBenjamin GutermanRoger R. Trask Lecture Guardians of History at the Library of CongressJohn Y. ColeArticles“The Duty of Government”: The Politics of the
Domestic Postal Money Order, 1837–1911 Christopher W. ShawShipowners and Seamen in the Establishment of the Department of Commerce and Department of Labor, 1898–1920Kathleen [...]
In The Legal Concept of Work, Zoé Adams analyses how the law determines which forms of human labour are considered as work and which ones are not. She shows in six chapters
the contingency of labour law along historical junctures when struggles over working time, renumeration, and social security occurred. [...]
(image source: Ticketmaster) Abstract: What happens if a person who rejects all rules and conventions finds himself in the position of the ruler? The Prussian ‘Soldier
King’ Frederick William I (1688-1740), father of Frederick the Great, is a legendary figure of German history. [...]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a new proposed organizational chart today reflecting major structural changes to the State Department. The reorganization abolishes
the most senior department position dedicated to human rights and civilian security, eliminates key equity and global accountability offices, and appears to complete [...]
In this post last August, I pondered "what sentence for former US Rep George Santos after his plea to fraud and identity theft?". And in this post a couple of weeks ago,
I reported on and linked to dueling sentencing memos submitted to US District Judge Joanna Seybert prior to Santos' scheduled federal sentencing on April 25, 2025. [...]
I flagged last week that this coming Friday (April 25) brings this exciting and distinctive event for sentencing fans titled "Criminal Sentencing Colloquium: Developments in
Civilian and Military Law" at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. I am quite honored and thrilled to be a speaking on one of the panels at the [...]
