Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. Since 2002, the rule of Turkish politics has been clear and simple: Turkey periodically holds elections,
and the winning party remains the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [...]
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Leslie Book (Villanova) presents Administrative Burdens, Sludge, and Individual Taxpayer Rights (with Keith Fogg (Harvard)) at Florida today as part of its Tax Colloquium Series:
The tax system designed by Congress imposes significant administrative burdens on taxpayers. [...]
Geoff Sigalet (Stanford Law School) has posted Proportionality's Reductio Ad Monitum (Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d’études constitutionnelles Vol. 23 Issue.
2 2018) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This review essay focuses on Paul Yowell’s recent argument against entrenching bills of rights, along with his ‘second-best’ [...]
In America, the spiritual seekers and do-it-yourselfers can claim as ancestors American transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman. But there is also a distinctively English
analogue of the late Victorian period. That is the subject of this new book, The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian fin de [...]
Darby Dickerson (UIC-John Marshall), Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Negotiating Your First Employment Offer in Legal Academia: This WIP is for individuals, particularly women,
who are about to negotiate their first employment offers in legal academia (whether tenure-line or non-tenure-line). [...]
Dans la nuit du 26 février 2012, le corps de Sylvie Fumadelles se consume dans le brasier de sa voiture, sur un parking forestier de l’abbaye de Port-Royal, à Saint-Lambert-des-Bois
(Yvelines). Son mari François Darcy est retrouvé à quelques mètres, blessé d’une balle dans l’omoplate. [...]
Lewis Peschet, 21 ans, coupable d’avoir sauvagement assassiné une camarade de lycée en 2012, a été condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité assortie d’une
période de sûreté de 22 ans par les assises de l’Aisne à Laon, en 2014. Un cas historique pour l’expert psychiatre Daniel Zagury … [...]
(Source: Rowman & Littlefield) Rowman & Littlefield has published a new book on efforts towards restorative justice in former German colonial Namibia. ABOUT THE BOOK This
book provides readers with a critical analysis of the restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities in Namibia, who contend that they should receive [...]
