How should the next attorney general, whoever he or she turns out to be, handle the John Durham probe? How should the next attorney general, whoever he or she turns out to

be, handle the John Durham probe? [...]

Ellen Rock (University of Technology Sydney (UTS)) has posted Resolving Tensions at the Interface of Public and Private Law ((2020) 94 Australian Law Journal 381) on SSRN. 

Here is the abstract: Public and private law converge in cases where causes of action and remedies from both sides of the divide might be brought to bear, such as [...]

 President-elect Biden faces formidable policy challenges that would daunt any incoming administration.  A still-raging pandemic, considerable economic uncertainty, and an

unusually fraught international situation, among many others.  Devising responses to these challenges would not be easy even in favorable circumstances.  But circumstances [...]

The Québec Court of Appeal errs in thinking the Charter prevents the imposition of, in effect, life imprisonment without parole By Léonid Sirota & Maxime St-Hilaire, crossposted

from Double Aspect [...]

Jackie Fielding has posted 'Wreaking Extraordinary Destruction' : Defendant’s Irreplaceability as Presumptively Reasonable Grounds for Downward Departure in Sentencing (Minnesota

Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 5, 2020) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Despite the media attention afforded to the... [...]

This week, David Elkins (Netanya) reviews a recently posted work by Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama) & Ana Santos Rutschman (St. Louis), Tax Policy and Pharmaceutical Innovation

(2020): With so much of the world’s attention this year focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, it is little wonder that tax scholars too have waded... [...]

Daniel C. Richman and Sarah Seo (Columbia Law School and Columbia Law School) have posted How Federalism Built the FBI, Sustained Local Police, and Left Out the States (Forthcoming,

Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Vol. 17, 2021)... [...]

Judith Resnik, Susanne Baer & Marta Cartabia, Women, Gendered Violence, and the Construction of the "Domestic" in Seeking Safety, Knowledge, and Security in a Troubling Environment:

Global Constitutionalism 2020 This Chapter provides background material for conversations held at the 2020... [...]

Bloomberg, Billionaires Urge Tax Reform to Free $1 Trillion for Charity Bloomberg, Local Lenders Stay Sidelined as Cash Flows to Opportunity Zones Forbes, As More Americans

Move To No-Income-Tax States, More Lawmakers Move To Phase Out State Income Taxes The Hill, Biden's Treasury Pick Will Have Lengthy To-Do List on... [...]

ABA Journal, Law Prof Finds Ways to Connect Remotely Amid Historic Election and COVID-19 Restrictions R. Lisle Baker (Suffolk), Character and Fitness for Leadership – Educating

Lawyers for Compassion and Courage as well as Brains -- The Wizard of Oz was Right Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell Ends Cherished Ithaca Tradition:... [...]