John Gramlich at Pew Research Center has this new FactTank piece headlined "11 states that have the death penalty haven’t used it in more than a decade." Here are excerpts

(with a few facts highlighted): Tennessee carried out its first execution since 2009 this month and Nebraska soon may carry out its first since 1997.  The two states [...]

Corinne Tan (The University of Melbourne - Law School) has posted Regulating Social Media: Copyright's Regulation of Content-Generative User Behaviours on Instagram ((2018)

2 Intellectual Property Quarterly 140) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This article uses Richard Prince’s controversial use of Instagram images in his artworks, [...]

Beyond the unpredictability injected into the international order in the wake of policies adopted by the current US administration, a trend seems to be taking shape: the management

of interdependence. The belief whereby increased global integration and connectivity would bring peace, stability and prosperity has never been as challenged as presently, [...]

(Source: Wikipedia) Brill will publish a book on the history of "justice" and its iconography through the centuries later this month.   Brill will publish a book on the history

of "justice" and its iconography through the centuries later this month.   [...]

[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is excited to feature a special symposium on the Italian general election of March 4, 2018. The symposium will feature four parts, including this

Introduction. We are grateful to Professor Antonia Baraggia for convening this symposium. [...]

Rechtsgebiete:  Eine Auftragsnachfolge stellt grundsätzlich keinen Betriebsübergang iSv. Art. 1 Abs. 1 RL 2001/23/EG, § 613a BGB dar. Anders kann die Rechtslage aber zu

beurteilen sein, wenn der neue Auftragnehmer einen nach Zahl und/oder Sachkunde wesentlichen Teil der Arbeitnehmer übernimmt und dies mit dem Übergang einer "wirtschaftlichen [...]

Carolyn Moser (Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) & Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute

for Comparative Public Law and International Law) have posted Legal Uncertainty and Indeterminacy – Immutable Characteristics of the OSCE? on SSRN.  Here is [...]

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Megan Stevenson and Christopher Slobogin now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: At sentencing, youth

can be considered both a mitigating circumstance because of its association with diminished culpability and an aggravating circumstance because of its association [...]

Michael D. Cicchini has posted Spin Doctors: Prosecutor Sophistry and the Burden of Proof (87 U. Cincinnati L. Rev. __ (Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Prosecutors

have developed several tactics to effectively lower the burden of proof in... [...]