African leaders, organizations and individuals are increasingly investing in Africa’s expanding technology sector, presenting U.S. policymakers with a unique opportunity
to reframe the U.S. approach to Africa and support an endeavor that has the potential to mitigate against the underlying factors driving many of Africa’s current [...]
A recent paper by Bocar Ba (Penn) and Roman Rivera (Columbia), The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago, considers whether
increased police oversight mechanisms contribute to increased crime levels as well as citizens' complaints about police conduct. [...]
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at 10:00 a.m.: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will hold a webinar on presidential
leadership in times of crisis. The discussion will include: Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University; David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst [...]
The University of San Francisco School of Law seeks candidates for the position of Co-Director of ABES (Academic Foundations) and Assistant Professor to commence summer 2020.
The Academic and Bar Exam Success (ABES) Program at USF Law School offers comprehensive... [...]
Fault Lines welcomes Farah Pandith, first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities and author of "How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries,
Enlightened Business Leaders and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat." What role do young people have to play in countering extremism? Where do we [...]
What are the Chinese Communist Party's international propaganda goals? How is it faring in the battle to define COVID-19's winners and losers? Matt Schrader of the German Marshall
Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy brings the mirth in these dark times. We also go into tech and discrimination, stories from time working at China Daily and [...]
President Trump on Saturday predicted that this coming week will be “one of the toughest weeks” of the COVID-19 pandemic, as data projects that the volume of cases in several
U.S. regions will hit their peak within seven days, reports NPR. The novel coronavirus is almost certainly killing Americans who are being left out of the official [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the dubious honor of being among the most visible focal points for conflicted U.S. attitudes toward the international legal order.
Tensions between the U.S. and the ICC, never entirely absent, have now been renewed after the ICC Appeals Chamber authorized the long-delayed investigation into alleged [...]
Today’s cultural, political and ideological debates are imbued with a strange opacity, the result of their remove from the concrete day-to-day experience of the vast majority
of people — ordinary citizens, or la gente de a pie, as they say in Latin America. [...]
Law.com reported that the National Conference of Bar Examiners will offer bar exams on September 9-10, and again on September 30-October 1. These dates will allow U.S. jurisdictions
to skip the July bar exam and offer it instead in September.... [...]
