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WAR — U.S. RESPONSE  [...]

On April 16 2025, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Supreme Court) delivered its decision on a fundamental question regarding the interpretation of the terms “sex”

and “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 (EA) i.e., whether the EA includes trans women with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) issued under the Gender Recognition [...]

The Church of England has issued the following Press Release on the formal response of the House of Bishops to the Independent Reviewer’s report on the submission from WATCH

(Women and the Church) regarding the appointment of diocesan bishops who do not ordain women as priests[*]. [...]

Every border implies the violence of its maintenance. It’s just that the border guards differ. Borders come in many kinds. The borders this statement brings to mind could

be geographical, international. Perhaps they are otherwise spatial, or temporal.  This is a post about sex and gender. [...]

As the bold “TED” logo dissolves into a flurry of red dots, a slightly nasal voice asks us to examine a picture and consider the puzzle it presents.[1] ‘These African

students are doing their homework under streetlights at the airport in the capital city because they don’t have electricity at home.’ He singles one out and […] [...]

Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’

As in previous industrial revolutions –bolstered by scientific discovery– bold entrepreneurs seek to influence decision-makers and shape social and legal rules [...]

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 195 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal

weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings: Business/Corporate Law Clinical Law Constitutional Law Contracts/Commercial Law Criminal Law Dispute Resolution... [...]

Joshua D. Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Introduction to Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance

(Cambridge University Press, 2025): Administrative agencies that are responsible for running federal government operations have increasingly turned to chatbots, virtual [...]

A great benefit of my sabbatical several years ago at Princeton’s James Madison Program was having an office next door to Professor John Wilsey. I always enjoyed and learned

a great deal from our hallway conversations. Now lots of other people can benefit, too, since John, a church historian at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]

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