The University of Miami School of Law and the University of Houston Law Center are requesting submissions for a Virtual Colloquium on Race, Racism, and American Media to be

held Sept. 17, 2021. The deadline for submissions is June 21, 2021. [...]

On Thursday June 17, 2021, from 10:00-11:15 am ET, Disability Rights International (DRI) is hosting a virtual event "Transitional Justice and Disability in the Americas: Accountability

for Serious and Pervasive Human Rights Violations". Click here to register. Speakers for the... [...]

Charles R. Corbett (UCLA School of Law) has posted Chemtrails and Solar Geoengineers: Governing Online Conspiracy Theory Misinformation (Missouri Law Review, Vol. 85, No.

3, 2020) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: As greenhouse gases mount, interest in unorthodox proposals to limit warming temperatures has grown. [...]

Jacob Sullum has this piece at Reason (via NACDL's news-of-interest): The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday concluded that civil forfeiture of a Land Rover "worth at least $35,000"

that was used to sell small amounts of heroin violated the Eighth Amendment's... [...]

From The New York Times, reporting on a pending cert petition regarding a law struck down on First Amendment grounds by the Louisiana Supreme Court: A Louisiana law required

people convicted of sex crimes to use driver’s licenses on which... [...]

Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive (YDEA) Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive (YDEA) Welcome

YDEA is harnessing the power of Linked Open Data (LOD) to reassemble and re-contextualize archaeological data from Dura-Europos.Unique circumstances of preservation [...]

US District Judge Jack Weinstein was nominated to be a federal judge a year before I was born, but twenty-six years later, the very first case I worked on during my first judicial

clerkship involved an appeal of Judge Weinstein's remarkable (and yet-still-run-of-the-mill) sentencing opinion in US v. [...]

I saw this notable new report from the folks at the National Registry of Exonerations titled "25,000 Years Lost to Wrongful Convictions."  here is part of the start of the

report: In 2018, the National Registry of Exonerations reported a grim milestone: Exonerated defendants had collectively served 20,000 years in prison for crimes [...]