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10 Jul 2015, 4:53 am
The State Department has recently tried to minimize the significance and effect of provisions in the newly enacted trade promotion laws that seek to discourage boycotts and other economic sanctions against Israel. [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 10:32 am
The headlines about the State of the Union speech predictably say President Obama will “act alone on the economy,” bypassing Congress. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 7:54 am by Eugene Kontorovich
Yesterday, I wrote about the morally and legally misguided effort by the Palestinian Authority and supportive NGOs to expel or punish Israel from FIFA, world football’s (American soccer) governing body. [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 5:51 am by Eugene Kontorovich
The White House announced today a smorgasbord of actions to measures to deal with “gun violence. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 7:41 am
In a series of decisions in last decade – Sanchez-Llamas v. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 7:10 am
The American Studies Association is apparently unhappy about the barrage of press coverage, none of it sympathetic, of their zig-zagging roll-back of their Israel boycott, which played out in part here at Volokh. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:58 am by Eugene Kontorovich
A previous post discussed the issue of third-party financing in Hulk Hogan’s privacy lawsuit against Gawker. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 7:16 am
When the American Studies Association adopted its Israel boycott in February, it was “credited… for giving moment to the boycott campaign. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 1:08 pm by Eugene Kontorovich
President Obama signed into law this week important measures opposing boycotts of Israel. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 9:55 am by Eugene Kontorovich
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association has approved a resolution to boycott Israel, which must now be voted on by the group’s membership. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 9:15 am by Eugene Kontorovich
The dramatic drop in ballots cast for Donald Trump in the final week of the Louisiana primary has led to renewed scrutiny of the quiet expansion of early voting. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 6:13 am by Eugene Kontorovich
The Security Council is expected to vote today on a resolution, introduced by Egypt, condemning the presence of settlements — Jewish communities in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 11:52 am by Eugene Kontorovich
A fairly bizarre series of tweets by President Trump criticizing the Justice Department for its handling of his executive orders on visas has lead most observers to conclude that he has cemented the constitutional challenge to his own policies, blown up the government’s case and confirmed his own bigotry. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 2:00 pm
This week the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law published my new research paper, “Economic Dealings With Occupied Territories. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 5:30 am
Israel’s proposed constitutional legislation to confirm its status as the “nation state” of the Jewish people has not only generated controversy within Israel, where it has helped bring down the current parliamentary coalition, but has also drawn criticism from the U.S. and Europe. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 11:02 am by Eugene Kontorovich
(John Thys/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) Human Rights Watch published a long, graphics-rich report on Sunday denouncing Israeli semi-pro soccer (football) clubs in towns in the West Bank. [read post]