ABA Journal, At Some Law Schools, Why Are Those Who Teach Called 'Instructor' Rather Than 'Professor'?: At Rutgers, everyone who teaches law is called a professor, but that
is not true at many other institutions, where faculty who teach topics including legal writing, academic success and clinical work are often... [...]
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law by Steven D. Smith. Here is a description: Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses
legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world. [...]
Im Jahr 2020 jährte sich das Erscheinen des ersten Hefts der Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie zum vierzigsten Mal. Die Redaktion hatte einiges vor: ein Jubiläumsheft, das
die Beiträge des ersten Hefts vor dem Hintergrund der... [...]
The Download of the Week is Functional Equivalence and Residual Rights Post-Carpenter: Framing a Test Consistent with Precedent and Original Meaning by Laura Donohue.
Here is the abstract: The Carpenter Court held that warrantless access to seven or more days of cell site location information (CSLI) constitutes a violation of the [...]
Frankreich feiert dieser Tage die 40-jährige Abschaffung der Todesstrafe. Am 18. September 1981 wurde die loi n°310 portant abolition de la peine de mort mit 363 Parlamentarier-Stimmen
gegen 117 angenommen. Am 9. Oktober 1981 trat das Gesetz in Kraft – seit 2007 hat die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe Verfassungsrang. [...]
Last week, the then Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, (who has just been replaced) published an op-ed piece in the Sunday Telegraph on the recruitment of a new Chair of
the Charity Commission. In it, he criticised the Churchill Fellowship for what he described as “a controversial rebrand which appeared to airbrush Sir Winston Churchill [...]
Jüngst haben Durchsuchungen der Staatsanwaltschaft Osnabrück bei zwei Bundesministerien im Rahmen eines strafrechtlichen Ermittlungsverfahrens hohe Wellen geschlagen. Die
Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen verschiedene Beschuldigte wegen des Verdachts der Geldwäsche, wobei zudem – soweit dies der Presseberichterstattung entnommen [...]
Karen Sloan (Reuters), Ominous Early Signs Emerge For July 2021 Bar Exam Pass Rates: Data from the July 2021 bar exam is starting to roll in, and test-takers' performance isn't
looking great. The average score on the Multistate Bar Exam, the 200-question multiple-choice portion of the test, fell to 140.4.... [...]
Allison Christians (McGill) and Leandra Lederman (Indiana) introduce Season 2 of their YouTube series, Break Into Tax (BiT): Professors Leandra Lederman & Allison Christians
summarize Season 1 & bring Break Into Tax into Season 2! Prof. Lederman will run Season 2, and it will feature some guest co-hosts. [...]
