Since the Elsblog's creation almost two decades ago, the blog was hosted by Typepad. Regrettably, however, Typepad announced that it will cease operation on Sept., 30, 2025.
Consequently, the Elsblog will migrate to a new platform, Blogspot, and this migration (along with some degree of duplication) will unfold over the next few weeks. [...]
[First posted in AWOL 17 April 2021, updated 27 August 2025] [First posted in AWOL 17 April 2021, updated 27 August 2025] Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia ISSN 0065-0986e-ISSN
2451-0300 [...]
A Monument More Lasting than Bronze: Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019 Paul McKechnie, Samson Kambalu,
Steve Nyamilandu [...]
Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur: Phänomene und Funktionen 1 Franziska Naether Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur
Bd. 1 [...]
Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur: Phänomene und Funktion 2 Franziska Naether Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur
Bd. 2 [...]
David Schleicher (Yale, Google Scholar), Your House Is Worth More than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity, 62 Harv. J. on Legis. 1 (2024):
In the last few years, researchers have revealed something shocking about the property tax, the mainstay of local governmental finance. [...]
The Indian Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for a writing workshop on "Asian Cities and International Law" for early- and mid-career international
law teachers, to be held December 13, 2025, in New Delhi. Details are here. [...]
I was pleased to learn via an email that The Sentencing Project has updated its report from last year (noted here) on second look sentencing developments. This new 44-page
report is titled "The Second Look Movement: An Assessment of the Nation’s Sentence Review Law," and here is how its executive summary gets started: Today, there [...]
The question in the title of this post is prompted by Prez Trump's latest social media posting, which asserts that "Speaker Mike Johnson, and Leader John Thune, are working
with me, and other Republicans, on a Comprehensive Crime Bill." I assume any future crime bill will be given a catchier name at some point, and I know I am already [...]
