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JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We…
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
Edited by University of Miami School of Law Professor Michael Froomkin, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)–JOTWELL–invites law professors to join us in filling a telling gap in legal scholarship by creating a space where legal academics will go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new legal scholarship.
http://jotwell.com/
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Sep 20
Limitations on the Business Case for Diversity
Limitations on the Business Case for DiversityJamillah Bowman Williams, Breaking Down Bias: Legal Mandates vs. Corporate Interests, Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017), available on SSRN.Marcia L. McCormickThose working in antidiscrimination law are well-versed in the central role that the… -
Sep 19
Who Should Terminate or Modify Irrevocable Trusts?
Who Should Terminate or Modify Irrevocable Trusts?Bradley E.S. Fogel, Terminating or Modifying Irrevocable Trusts by Consent of the Beneficiaries—A Proposal to Respect the Primacy of the Settlor’s Intent, 50 Real Prop., Tr. & Est. L.J. 337 (2016). Michael Yu Professor Bradley… -
Sep 18
When the Life of the Law is Logic
When the Life of the Law is LogicSarah B. Lawsky, Formalizing the Code, 70 Tax L. Rev. 377 (2017), available at SSRN. Susan Morse In Formalizing the Code, Professor Sarah Lawsky offers a glimpse of what might be gained if law were written in formal logic…
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Dorf on Law
Dorf on Law
By Cornell Law School Professor Michael Dorf and his friends.
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/
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Sep 20
Unconscientious Objection
Unconscientious Objectionby Michael DorfMy latest Verdict column discusses the recent decision of the Israel Supreme Court giving the government a year to develop a plan to substantially boost participation by Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men in the military or face a… -
Sep 19
NeverTrump Conservatives In a Futile Search For Relevance
NeverTrump Conservatives In a Futile Search For Relevanceby Neil H. BuchananOne of the depressing parlor games of the post-November 8 era has been trying to explain how the presidential election was even close enough for Donald Trump to wriggle his way through the eye of the Electoral College… -
Sep 18
Wedding Cakes, Urinals, and Other Art
Wedding Cakes, Urinals, and Other Artby Michael DorfIn his post for this blog over the weekend, my friend and co-blogger Eric Segall discusses how the record in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case before the SCOTUS is unclear in a way that could preclude the Court from deciding…
Rank this Week: 538
Human Rights at Home Blog
Human Rights at Home Blog
Edited by Martha F. Davis, Margaret Drew, Lauren Bartlett, Carrie Bettinger Lopez, Leigh Goodmark, Brian Howe, Deena Hurwitz, Risa Kaufman, Sital Kilantry, Mariah McGill, Fran Quigley, Katherine Schultz, David Singleton, Cindy Soohoo, Jonathan Todrews, Penny Venetis and Lesley Wexler.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/human_rights/
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Sep 20
Hiding in the Light: Disclosure and Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right
Hiding in the Light: Disclosure and Guiding Principles on Business and Human RightJena Martin of West Virginia College of Law has posted a fascinating new article titled Hiding in the Light: The Misuse of Disclosure to Advance the Business and Human Rights Agenda. Here's the abstract: "The aim of this article is... -
Sep 19
Silencing
SilencingSilencing is a powerful tool of oppression. Creeping authoritarianism has reinvigorated silencing as punishment and a way to limit free speech. On September 11th, 24 of 28 University of North Carolina trustees voted to ban the UNC Chapel… -
Sep 18
The Windsor Legacy
The Windsor Legacyby Prof. Jeremiah Ho Last week, Edith Windsor passed away at 88. As many will know, she was the plaintiff in U.S. v. Windsor, in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and...
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