Vom 10. bis 11. April 2025 veranstalten Beate Söntgen und Liza Mattutat einen Workshop unter dem Titel „Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)Production and Forms
of Life“ an der Universität Lüneburg. Vor dem Hintergrund der familienabolitionistischen Debatten der letzten Jahre soll danach gefragt werden, wie sich die zunehmende [...]
Bullying in the Legal Profession: A Study of Illinois Lawyers’ Experiences and Recommendations for Change (Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism 2024) (press
release): The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism initiated what is believed to be the first study on the prevalence and experiences of bullying [...]
According to media reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proposing to force Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza and declare a ‘closed military zone’.
Likud MP Avichai Boaron told The Guardian that ‘the IDF will evacuate all the civilians who are in the north of Gaza, from the border to the Gaza River’, on the [...]
[Saul J. Takahashi is Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University. From March 2009 to May 2014, Saul served as Deputy Head of Office of the Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Palestine.] The resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 18 September 2024, subsequent [...]
Helen Hershkoff and Adam Littlestone-Luria, both of New York University School of Law, are publishing The Louisiana Constitution and the Courts of Westminster: Standing and
the Civil Law Heritage in volume 85 of the Louisiana Law Review (2025). Here is the abstract. [...]
Emily Widra writing at the Prison Policy Initiative has this lengthy new briefing titled "New, expanded data on Indian country jails show concerning trends extend to tribal
lands." The subheading of the piece provides an overview: "In Indian country jails, populations have rebounded from pandemic lows, the detention of women and older [...]
The title of this post is the title of this new essay authored by Paul Cassell recently posted to SSRN. Here is its abstract: What role should mercy play in the criminal justice
system? While several of the other symposium’s articles here in the Texas Law Review argue for expanding mercy’s role, I write to raise a cautionary note. [...]
The Council on Criminal Justice today released this notable report put together following a summer convening of researchers and various stakeholdersto discuss the potential
and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for criminal justice systems. Here is part of the report's introduction: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence [...]
Description: Description: Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations.
Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society [...]
