Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy, Taxing Teens: Working Children, Family Businesses, and the Kiddie Tax: Being able to manage money is an important life skill,
but many American youth are not well prepared to do so. A recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study shows that... [...]
Die Versuchung liegt nahe, jetzt erst einmal Hohn und Spott auszugießen über die AfD-Bundestagsfraktion: So eine dicke Hose hatte sie sich über ihre dünnen Beine gezogen
mit ihrer Klage gegen die angebliche "Herrschaft des Unrechts" in der Flüchtlingspolitik, die sie im vergangenen Mai im Bundestag der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt [...]
il est fréquent d’entendre qu’il existe une façon de raisonner qui est propre aux juristes. Parfois entendue positivement – au sens de la précision du raisonnement
ou de ses termes – et parfois négativement – le goût de l’argutie, le caractère procédurier, l’excès de formalisme -, cette façon de raisonner est même [...]
Brian G. Slocum (University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law) has posted Ordinary Meaning and Empiricism (Statute Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Statutory interpretation involves an interpreter determining the meaning of the text on the basis of various interpretive tools, all of which relate to the meaning [...]
Ceasefire Enters Force in Hodeidah after Productive Peace Talks A week of peace talks between the warring factions in Yemen concluded last Thursday with the announcement of
agreements to de-escalate fighting in the partially besieged city of Taiz and establish a ceasefire throughout the province of Hodeidah, where Saudi and Emirati-backed [...]
Hot-on-the-heels of a landmark trial judgment in Case 2/2, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (also known as the Khmer Rouge Trials) in recent days
issued a significant decision in another case, Case 3. Or, more accurately, “decisions,” since two co-equal judges came to opposite decisions on the personal [...]
[Lieutenant Commander Yusuke Saito is a legal advisor in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and a military professor at Stockton Center of International Law, United
States Naval War College. The views expressed in this article are of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect the stance of the U.S. [...]
In a recent article published in AJIL, I tried to develop a coherent theory of the doctrine of specially-affected states, first articulated by the ICJ — and largely ignored
thereafter — in North Sea Continental Shelf. I concluded the article with a call to the Global South to invoke the doctrine more liberally in international litigation: [...]
Neu veröffentlichte Handschriftenseiten: – New Haven, Yale University, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 413 – Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana,
Reg. Lat. 263 [...]
Via the American Society for Legal History, we have the official citation for the Cromwell Article Prize, which was awarded to Noam Maggor (Cornell University): The William
Nelson Cromwell Foundation offers an annual prize of $5,000 for the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar. Articles published [...]
