Sixteen states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Virginia and Michigan)
have filed suit against President Trump over his declaration of national emergency. [...]
Andrew McCabe’s lengthy interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes this weekend should not in any profound respect change one’s understanding of L’Affaire Russe or the investigation
of it. It does however, substantially enrich that understanding, adding important texture and detail in a number of different areas and sharpening some questions [...]
Editor’s Note: Few people disagree with the goal of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), but in practice the programs have faced many problems. A big one is that it is hard
to know if they are working, as existing metrics do a poor job of measuring success and failure. [...]
While agreement on a common set of metrics facilitates longitudinal studies as well as comparisons across studies, these benefits should not deter fresh new thinking about
new sources of data that inform lingering research questions. A new paper by Aurelie Ouss (Penn--criminology) and John Rappaport (Chicago), Is Police Behavior Getting [...]
This three-year project on the Future of Legal Gender is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It runs from May 2018 until April 2021. The aim of
the project is to critically explore the question of legal gender (a term we use for the different ways in which law explicitly treats people as having a gender [...]
Laura Knöpfel PhD Candidate and research fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London 07 Mar 2019, 12:30PM to 2:00P VENUE:MANOR ROAD BUILDING – SEMINAR
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Dr Emily Grabham Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent 25 Feb 2019, 4:30PM to 6:00PM VENUE:MANOR ROAD BUILDING – SEMINAR ROOM G SERIES:CENTRE FOR SOCIO-LEGAL
STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES – OXFORD [...]
Something a little different on the podcast today: the launch of a special series—the Culper Partners Rule of Law Series. David Kris and Nates Jones, the founders of the
Culper Partners consulting firm, have recorded a limited-edition podcast series exploring various aspects of the rule of law, particularly as it relates to U.S. [...]
Congress and the courts will soon have the opportunity to respond to Donald Trump’s declaration that Congress’s failure to fund his wall at the level he demanded has resulted
in a “national emergency” at the southern border. I and others have written about the weakness of the legal basis for this declaration. [...]
On Friday, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border to secure funds previously denied by Congress to build a border wall. Matthew Kahn
shared the official proclamation, and Scott Anderson and Margaret Taylor examined the legal authorities cited in the declaration. [...]
