Traditionally used to protect trade secrets and proprietary information, non-disclosure agreements are now regularly found in employment contracts and settlement agreements

of all kinds. But these agreements can also operate as oppressive contracts of silence – particularly when invoked to prevent victims of discrimination, harassment, [...]

John Bliss (University of Denver Sturm College of Law) has posted The Legal Ethics of Secret Client Recording (Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 33, 2020) on SSRN. 

Here is the abstract: Is it professional misconduct for a lawyer to record lawyer-client conversations without providing notice? When this question hit the national [...]

Saskia Stucki and colleagues have invited the readers of this blog to sign the “World Lawyers’ Pledge on Climate Action”. I find myself unable to do so and I would like

to share the reasons for this, in the spirit of civil academic debate that this blog has long promoted. [...]

Paul M. Secunda has posted The Emerging Law of Portable Retirement Benefits (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2020) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Alt-labor and

the sharing economy have recently come to dominate the writings of labor and employment law scholars. [...]

Following up on my previous post: St. Mary’s Law Launches the Nation’s First Fully Online J.D. Program Approved by the ABA: The online J.D. program will begin recruiting

for Fall 2022 with accreditation by the American Bar Association. St. Mary’s University and its School of Law today announced that it... [...]

In regelmäßigen Abständen präsentieren wir an dieser Stelle neu veröffentlichte Handschriftenseiten. Diesmal kommen die folgenden 20 Seiten hinzu: – Admont, Stiftsbibliothek,

712 – Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Can. 2 – Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Can. 7 – Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Hist. [...]

From Courthouse News Service, via NACDL's news-of-interest: Named after a Texas state trooper shot dead during a traffic stop, Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Monday to

block those accused of violent crimes from being released from jail without paying... [...]