Following up on my previous posts this week: Preview Of The 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage Preview Of The 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings:
Ultimate Bar Passage Today, following up on last week's post, Law School Rankings By 10-Month Employment Rate (2024), this post projects... [...]
This week's ABA Tax Section 2025 May Tax Meeting (program) kicks off today. A highlight is the Teaching Taxation program on Friday on The Future of High-End Tax Enforcement:
A constant source of concern in the U.S. tax system is the ability of wealthy and high-income individuals to avoid paying... [...]
At its annual meeting in April, the Organization of American Historians awarded the Binkley-Stephenson Award (for "the best article that appeared in the Journal of American
History during the preceding calendar year") to Karen L. Zipf (East Carolina University) for "Exposing the Masculinist Narrative in Federal Antislavery Law: A History [...]
Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Union’s new text and data mining
(TDM) exception – one from Germany (see the Kneschke v. LAION ruling here, here and here) and one from the Netherlands (see the DPG Media v. [...]
Friedrich Merz was confirmed as Germany’s new Chancellor on 6 May, despite losing an initial vote in the Bundestag. John Ryan argues Merz will face a formidable challenge
in trying to revive the German economy. The result of the German federal election in February reflected a complex and fragile social and political landscape. [...]
Am Berliner Centre for Social Critique finden zwei Workshops statt und es werden Einreichungen für eine Konferenz gesucht: 1) Für die Konferenz „The Land Question / Die
Bodenfrage“ am 30.-31. Oktober 2025 in Berlin können Abstracts eingesendet werden. [...]
At 3am on Wednesday 16th April 2025, after three years of intense negotiations, WHO member states (minus the United States) preliminarily consented to a final text of the so-called
Pandemic Agreement. The text will now be considered for final adoption at the upcoming World Health Assembly meeting in May 2025, where – barring any major upsets [...]
At its annual meeting in April, the Organization of American Historians awarded the John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award ("given annually for the best PhD dissertation
in U.S. LGBTQhistory") to Shay Olmstead (Rochester Institute of Technology) for "‘Refuse to Run Away’: Transsexual Workers Fight for Civil Rights, 1969–1992," [...]
On Thursday 29 May 2025, a webinar will take place on “Teaching International Law: A Dialogue” (17:-18:30 CEST). The webinar will provide the chance to engage with authors
of recently published volumes devoted to teaching international law: Paul F. Diehl, Charlotte Ku, Teaching International Law (Edward Elgar, 2024); Jean-Pierre Gauci, [...]
