The new 2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 195 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal
weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings: Business/Corporate Law Clinical Law Constitutional Law Contracts/Commercial Law Criminal Law Dispute Resolution... [...]
Joshua D. Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Introduction to Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance
(Cambridge University Press, 2025): Administrative agencies that are responsible for running federal government operations have increasingly turned to chatbots, virtual [...]
A great benefit of my sabbatical several years ago at Princeton’s James Madison Program was having an office next door to Professor John Wilsey. I always enjoyed and learned
a great deal from our hallway conversations. Now lots of other people can benefit, too, since John, a church historian at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]
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The period of high industrialisation in the second half of the 19th century marked the beginning of a new era of transnational circulation of goods on the European continent.
The means of transport were initially inland waterway vessels and railways, and later in- creasingly lorries. [...]
(image source: OUP) Table of contents: List of Figures and MapsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword Justine Firnhaber-BakerIntroduction: Lordship
and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Erika Graham-Goering, Jim van der Meulen, and Frederik Bulaert1. [...]
As reported in this local article, "Death row inmate Moises Mendoza was executed Wednesday for the murder of a former high school classmate in 2004, becoming the third man
executed by Texas this year." Here is more: Mendoza, 41, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., according to Texas Attorney General [...]
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.’
Advocates of so-called robot rights argue for the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in human rights protection from two fundamentally different perspectives. [...]
