Here's a roundup:Writing for the Courts Law section, Steve Vladeck has posted an admiring review of James Pfander's Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (2017).Writing for the Criminal Law section, Margareth Etienne directs readers to Michael Javen Fortner, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (2015).A "Poverty Law" contribution, by Wendy Bach, flags Elizabeth Hinton's much-admired From the War on Poverty to… [read post]

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image creditThe annual meeting of the Social Science History Association takes place this week, and the program (available for download here) includes some exciting legal history offerings:Debt, Credit, and the Constitution of Capitalism Chair: Malick Ghachem, University of Maine (Law) The Monetization of Everything: The Nature and Timing of the Transition to Capitalism in the United States -- Michael Merrill, Empire State College, SUNY (Labor Studies) Making Money: The Invention of an… [read post]

The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's findings that the Respondent violated Section 8(a)(1) of the Act on Jan. 23, 1996, when its Field Superintendent, Ken Fortner, implicitly threatened employees David Packer, James Neumane, and Richard Deuhaut with unspecified reprisals when they gave him a letter from the Boilermakers and displayed union insignia; and violated Section 8(a)(3) and (1) by discriminatorily refusing to consider and hire the Union's paid… [read post]

[Closing out Week Two of our FTC UMC Rulemaking symposium is a contribution from a very special guest: Commissioner Noah J. [read post]