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11 Jun 2020, 1:12 pm by Chas Kissick
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of Rational Security, in which Tamara Cofman Wittes, Shane Harris, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes discuss the government’s response to protests against police violence in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:17 am by Elliot Setzer
Benjamin Wittes analyzed Rod Rosenstein’s peculiar testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week. [read post]
District Court Judge John Gleeson—to advise him as to whether he should grant the department’s request to dismiss the case. [read post]
9 May 2020, 8:31 am by Elliot Setzer
Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes argued that the Justice Department made unfathomably bad arguments in seeking to dismiss the case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. [read post]
8 May 2020, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
A more accessible version of John Fabian Witt's lecture on the legal history of infectious diseases is here.Over at the Legal History Miscellany: Can you steal a peacock? [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 6:08 am by Dan Ernst
  The second is Salus Populi, a five-segment Panopto lecture on the legal history of epidemics John Fabian Witt delivered to his American Legal History students at the Yale Law School last week.Update: Via the American Historical Association's "Fortnightly News," we’ve learned that “the Stanton Foundation is launching a weekly contest to identify the best new applied history article or op-ed that analyzes history to clarify the medical, political,… [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The Johns Hopkins University Press has ungated Reviews in American History during the pandemic. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
New from Hart: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, vol. 1: National Reports, edited by Richard L Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Hilary Sommerlad and Ulrike Schultz.ICYMI: John Fabian Witt on How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court in the New Republic. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 7:58 pm by Howard Bashman
” Law professor John Fabian Witt has this book review essay in the April 2020 issue of The New Republic. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 6:39 pm by Dan Ernst
John Witt, Yale Law School, has published The Law of Salus Populi: Epidemics and the Law in the Yale Review. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 8:41 am by Elliot Setzer
Bobby Chesney examined whether the federal government can override state government rules on social distancing, a subject on which Ben Berwick, John Langford, Erica Newland and Kristy Parker also weighed in. [read post]
In 2007, researchers published findings in the scientific journal PNAS showing how local governments mitigated outbreaks of the 1918 flu pandemic by aggressively limiting public gatherings. [read post]
21 Mar 2020, 8:06 am by Elliot Setzer
And Benjamin Wittes argued Trump made a fool of his attorney general by tweeting a threat to veto the bipartisan compromise that William Barr had endorsed. [read post]
In doing so, he broke a long-standing tradition dating back to George Washington that recognizes that the House of Representatives has the right to demand information from the executive to support impeachment proceedings—a right so self-evident that John Quincy Adams declared that it would make a “mockery” of the Constitution to think otherwise. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 7:57 pm by Family Law
McClain (BU) has recently posted to SSRN Bigotry, Civility, and Reinvigorating Civic Education: Government's Formative Task Amidst Polarization in John Witte, Jr. et al., eds, The Role of Law in Character Formation, Moral Education, and the Communication of... [read post]