Inspector General’s Crossfire Hurricane Report Impeachment, Ukraine and Russia Investigations Nuclear Weapons Venezuela and Military Intervention Immigration, Family Separation,

and Child Detention [...]

The Download of the Week is Experimental Punishments by John F. Stinneford.  Here is the abstract: The Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits, under its original

meaning, punishments that are unjustly harsh in light of longstanding prior practice. [...]

This is from the relevant section of the USMCA implementing legislation submitted to the House on Friday: Subtitle B—Joint Reviews Regarding Extension of USMCA SEC. 611.

PARTICIPATION IN JOINT REVIEWS WITH CANADA AND MEXICO REGARDING EXTENSION OF THE TERM OF THE USMCA AND OTHER ACTION REGARDING THE USMCA. [...]

This is from USTR's fact sheet on the U.S. - China "phase one" trade agreement announced on Friday: Dispute Resolution: The Dispute Resolution chapter sets forth an arrangement

to ensure the effective implementation of the agreement and to allow the parties to resolve disputes in a fair and expeditious manner. [...]

Le Carnet de l’histoire de la justice, des crimes et des …développe la rubrique Portrait du jour – Criminocorpus  et ouvre ses pages aux fidèles lecteurs du site.

Pour son 286ème Portrait du jour – Criminocorpus le carnet reçoit avec infiniment de plaisir une amie du carnet Pauline Perrier auteure du roman Là-haut dansent [...]

CFP: Performing Law, Staging History: The (Re)Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, a “one-day interdisciplinary roundtable [that] aims to bring together academics and practitioners

from various fields including law, history, military studies, theatre, visual culture, politics and literature to analyse the Uprising of 1857 and the subsequent [...]

  This past week’s provisional measures hearing in the case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) made for a remarkable spectacle (see here, here,

and here). Acting as the head of her country’s delegation, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi sat silently as The Gambia’s legal team laid out its case [...]

The Tennessean, Belmont Law School to Support 'Independent Review' of Student Pregnancy Discrimination Claims: Belmont University's law school will support an independent review

into complaints of pregnancy discrimination by current and former female students that were first reported Monday by the Belmont Vision, a student-led campus newspaper. [...]