As reported in this AP piece, the "Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot stop an execution after Republican and Democratic lawmakers who say
Robert Roberson is innocent used the novel maneuver to pause his execution at the last minute." Here is more about the ruling and context: The ruling clears the [...]
The University of Geneva is organising the second edition of the Executive Training on Civil Aspects of International Child Protection (ICPT). For more information, click here.
The University of Geneva’s ICPT, offered by the Children’s Rights Academy, is designed to: [...]
Lobbying étranger auprès de l'Union européenne Définir une stratégie normative Lobbying étranger auprès de l'Union européenne Définir une stratégie normative Marie
LEONTE [...]
New York Times Op-Ed: I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them., by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)):
I want to begin with a wonderful and mysterious story. It begins badly. In September of 1995, when I was... [...]
Dispatch Faith: Remembering Humility as a Virtue, by Hannah Anderson (Author, Life Under the Sun: The Unexpectedly Good News of Ecclesiastes (2023)): With Donald Trump’s
decisive win this week, the 2024 presidential election has come to an end. Americans are exhausted and have earned the right to a break from... [...]
Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today), How to Get Through the Next Four Years: Just like during the last near-decade, those who support Trump and those who oppose
him will continue to look at one another the way Adams and Jefferson did over the French Revolution: “How could you support (or... [...]
Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar), Whither Coursework and NextGen Bar Exam Success?, 7 Raising the Bar 2 (2024): The NextGen bar exam will focus on an
expanded range of essential lawyering skills and a reduced set of legal topics. Moving toward less reliance on knowledge of the black... [...]
A week dominated by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s announcement of his intended resignation... …on which comments have been restricted to the legal issues involved. There
are a couple of good descriptions of how the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury will be chosen and appointed, below, but an appreciable degree of uncertainty has been [...]
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5. [1077 Downloads] Federal Tax Procedure
(2024 Practitioner Ed.), by John Townsend (Houston; Google Scholar) [931 Downloads] What is Tax Fairness?, by Rita... [...]
Cyberspace Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew and Yuval Shany analyze the African Union’s (AU) adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) on international law in cyberspace. The
authors focus on the CAP’s approach to digital human rights, including how existing human rights apply online, the potential development of new digital rights, [...]
