Linda Sugin (Fordham; Google Scholar), Proxy Taxes: Taxing The Wrong Person Can Be the Right Policy, 44 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2025): Congress seems unable to fix the inequities

and inefficiencies that riddle the tax law. This article suggests such a new strategy for building a better tax system that... [...]

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to the Anne Fleming Article Prize --

a prize that is particularly meaningful for us here at the blog. About the prize:  [...]

Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University, has published Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–71 open access in South Asia: Journal

of South Asian Studies: [...]

A l’occasion de la sortie de son dernier ouvrage, L’évêque, le prêtre et la paroisse au Moyen Âge (VIe-XIIIe siècle), Madame Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet, professeur

émérite de l’Université Paris-Saclay, présentera une conférence au CTHDIP. [...]

Arthur Dyevre, La décision juridictionnelle – Introduction à la théorie et à l’empirie du droit, Paris : Lefebvre Dalloz, coll. « Méthodes du droit », 268 p.

Compte rendu par Anne-Julie Rolland (École de relations industrielles – Université de Montréal) [...]

Ever since President Ronald Reagan popularized the phrase in the 1980s, American leaders have referred to the United States as the “shining city on a hill.” Reagan adapted

the phrase from John Winthrop, the 17th century governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who himself took it from the Gospel of Matthew. [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on Kunal Parker, The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). For

the Balkinization symposium on Kunal Parker, The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). [...]

[First posted in AWOL 2 September 2009. Updated 19 November 2024] En 1974, Pierre Lévêque crée la revue Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, conçue comme un espace de présentation

et de discussion des études sur l’histoire des sociétés antiques, de leurs structures sociales, économiques, religieuses et culturelles. [...]