I just came across this great collection of articles under the title "New Developments in Public Defense Research," which appears in the July 2020, issue of the journal Criminal

Justice Policy Review. The volume includes seven original papers and an introduction on a range of topics related to public defenders and public defense.  The whole [...]

Via this webpage overview and this key findings document, the group Harm Reduction International has assembled some interesting information about how countries around the world

have been approaching decarceration efforts in response to the coronavirus.  Here are excepts of the overview and key findings: Harm Reduction International monitored [...]

On the last day of its 2019-2020 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued what many consider to be an astonishing ruling: the eastern half of Oklahoma, including city of Tulsa,

remains a reservation of the Creek Nation fully 180 years... [...]

Check out this upcoming webinar, set for July 15, sponsored by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty: Since 2016, the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign has been supporting

efforts at the federal, state, and local levels to #DefundThePolice and... [...]

I wrote in my last post about the writing process I used as I worked my way out of a nasty bout of writers’ block. Those individual techniques were very helpful to me, but

equally important was the collective setting in which I did the work. In this post, I talk a little about the writing groups I was in, and the mutual writing support [...]

President Trump went to the Supreme Court asking the justices to protect him from subpoenas for his financial records—subpoenas from congressional committees and subpoenas

from a New York state grand jury. He didn’t get the shield against accountability that he sought. [...]

Peter Ormerod (Western Carolina University) has posted Privacy Injuries and Article III Concreteness (Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 48) on SSRN.  Here is the

abstract: The Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins requires federal courts to investigate the “concreteness” of a plaintiff’s injury, even [...]

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that New York prosecutors can access President Trump’s financial records, writes the New York Times. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in

the majority opinion, “no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.” [...]

Please find below an invitation to submit work for a new journal, The Disparity Law Journal, to be published as an imprint of the Journal of Law. The theme of our first issue

is Disparity in Legal Citation. [...]

[First posted in AWOL 10 July 2019, updated 9 July 2020] La Rivista del Museo Egizio promuove, raccoglie e diffonde le ricerche su tutti gli aspetti della collezione del

Museo Egizio di Torino e sui siti archeologici da esso indagati oggi e in passato, nonché studi su argomenti aventi una rilevanza indiretta per la collezione. [...]