I've posted this new paper on SSRN. Abstract: In recent years, religious-freedom issues have become caught up in the nation’s cycle of political and social polarization.
I have argued, on my own and in concert with others, that the only way forward is to protect key interests of both conflicting sides in our major religious-freedom [...]
Les élus locaux ont de plus en plus tendance à utiliser la mairie comme un support de communication, destiné à afficher leurs engagements politiques. A côté du drapeau
français et du drapeau de l'Union européenne, flottent désormais des drapeaux ukrainiens, palestiniens ou israéliens. [...]
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington; Google Scholar), Race-Based Tax Weapons, 14 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1067 (2024): In the United States, the term “poll tax” often refers
to a very specific tactic of white supremacy: the use of tax policy to prevent voting by Black citizens. [...]
by TJORBEN STUDT The commencement of Israel’s military offensive against Iran, focused on Iran’s nuclear program, has given rise to a resurgence of discourse surrounding
the boundaries of the right of self-defence under international law. According to Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu and the letter to the UNSC, the attack was the [...]
Es sei ein „großer Tag für die Demokratie und die Freiheit und das Volk“ – so bejubelte Jürgen Elsässer, Chefredakteur des in Teilen rechtsextremen Compact-Magazins,
die gestrige Entscheidung des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts zum Compact-Verbot. Das Bundesinnenministerium hatte unter der damaligen Ministerin Nancy Faeser im Juni 2024 [...]
—Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Sohag Elementary Court, Egypt. LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list
of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books and articles, and [...]
For the Balkinization symposium on Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment. For the Balkinization symposium on Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of
the First Amendment. [...]
Via email I reveiced news yesterday that the American Civil Liberties Union has released this new report on “death qualification” in capital cases titled "Fatal Flaws:
Revealing the Racial and Religious Gerrymandering of the Capital Jury." Here is a portion of the 33-page report's introductory summary: The Constitution requires [...]
In this post a few months ago, I flagged not only the first issue of Volume 37 of the Federal Sentencing Reporter (titled "Booker at Twenty"), but also that FSR had a shiny
new publisher, Duke University Press, as well as shiny new co-editor, Jonathan Wroblewski. Now I am pleased to see that Duke University Press has up on its blog [...]
