On April 24, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a letter to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat requesting increased security and police preparedness in the next
few months due to a “pending announcement.” [...]
On April 24, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a letter to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat requesting increased security and police preparedness in the next
few months due to a “pending announcement.” [...]
On April 19, the Supreme Court delivered a decision in Türkiye Halk Bankasi S.A. v. United States (Halkbank) that may make it easier to prosecute foreign sovereign entities,
while leaving some thorny questions of immunities unresolved. As I wrote in January, the case stemmed from the Southern District of New York’s indictment of Halkbank, [...]
On April 19, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a new bill, the STOP CSAM Act (an acronym for “child sex abuse material”). It’s the newest in a line of recent bills
that attempt to promote greater safety online, in part by demanding more transparency from the providers of popular internet services. [...]
In making legal judgements, Dutch courts regularly use so-called ‘societal views’. For example, within criminal law ‘socio-ethical acceptability’ is used as a measure
of whether sexual contact between minors is a crime or not. Within private law ‘what is socially acceptable’ is used as a criterion in tort law, and at the intersection [...]
In making legal judgements, Dutch courts regularly use so-called ‘societal views’. For example, within criminal law ‘socio-ethical acceptability’ is used as a measure
of whether sexual contact between minors is a crime or not. Within private law ‘what is socially acceptable’ is used as a criterion in tort law, and at the intersection [...]
Toulouse University will soon host a two day conference on empirical legal studies with a particular focus on environmental law. It will bring together scholars from across
Europe, including ELS pioneers such as Arthur Dyevre and Mathias Siems. Of twenty speakers overall, two currently work in German academia: Moritz Reese (presenting [...]
Toulouse University will soon host a two day conference on empirical legal studies with a particular focus on environmental law. It will bring together scholars from across
Europe, including ELS pioneers such as Arthur Dyevre and Mathias Siems. Of twenty speakers overall, two currently work in German academia: Moritz Reese (presenting [...]
During my time as a master’s student in Sociology of Law, I often came across the pretense that combining structural- and post-structural feminist standpoints in research
is a nearly impossible equation due to epistemological and ontological differences. [...]
During my time as a master’s student in Sociology of Law, I often came across the pretense that combining structural- and post-structural feminist standpoints in research
is a nearly impossible equation due to epistemological and ontological differences. [...]
„In der Jurisprudenz macht sich ein ‚neuer Geist‘ bemerkbar. […] Man ist der leeren Dogmatik überdrüssig geworden, alles drängt zu der lebendigen Natur, der die
Quellen des Rechts entströmen.“ [...]