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26 May 2011, 8:35 pm
And how long can any institution last without the rule of law? [read post]
8 May 2011, 11:46 am
Environmental Programme should be reformed to make it a more effective institution for international environmental governance.UNEP reform has been an issue of chronic concern. [read post]
5 May 2011, 9:44 am by Michael Markarian
In 1988, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to institute a mountain lion hunting season. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 3:18 pm by Bexis
  The American Law Institute’s unfortunate adoption of “strict liability” (sufficiently unfortunate, the ALI has done away with it except for manufacturing defect) missed a lot of product liability issues – the learned intermediary rule for one – that have become extremely widespread and important in product liability over the last 45 years. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 7:29 pm by Hedge Fund Lawyer
 That is, if the state laws remained the same after the federal laws go into effect, many smaller fund managers could remain unregistered. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 10:16 am by clayton
Epstein, for National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, amicus curiae, submitted a brief. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 4:00 am
Kathy Enos Kathryn "Kathy" Enos, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, died earlier this year, but she's still remembered for the many lives she touched as a paralegal working with the poor and underprivileged for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute in Boston, and Legal Services on Cape Cod. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 8:13 am by Renee Newman Knake
  Set forth below are a sampling: Introduction to the Symposium by Dave Hoffman, Temple University Beasley School of Law What Difference Representation: A Response by Bob Sable, Executive Director of Greater Boston Legal Services What Difference Representation: Inconclusive Evidence by Ted Eisenberg, Cornell Law School What Difference Representation: Case Selection and Professional Responsibility by Margaret Monsell, legal services attorney for Massachusetts… [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 2:11 pm by Margaret Monsell
My employer, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI), has as one of its primary tasks to connect the state’s field programs, where individual client representation occurs, with larger political bodies, including legislatures and administrative agencies, where the systemic changes affecting our clients most often take place. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 3:00 am by Guest Blogger
For the Constitution in 2020 conference on The Future of Equality.Douglas NeJaimePopular accounts and media commentary on the federal suits challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 focus largely on the inevitable march toward marriage equality.Implicit in such accounts is a claim about the impact of favorable court decisions on the LGBT rights agenda.After a district court victory in the Massachusetts DOMA case and the more recent announcement by… [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 8:23 am by Dave Hoffman
Upon graduation from law school in 1970, Jeanne was a staff attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute representing statewide and local public housing tenant groups and providing training and support for legal services in the state. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 9:48 pm by Steve Bainbridge
But Obama hasn't lead on Libya, health care reform (left it to Congress), fiscal reform (ditto), or practically anything since he took office. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 1:03 pm by Michael O'Hear
 All along, the reforms have consistently been sold as cost-savings measures (although there is sometimes also an ethical dimension, as in the so-called "compassionate release" laws). [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 12:37 pm
She served as Institute Coordinator for the two-day Institute held at Northeastern University School of Law on October 14 and 15, 2010, entitled "Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 3:56 pm by Steve Bainbridge
As evidence that Lovenheim’s proposal “ethical or social” significance, the court observed that humane treatment of animals was one of the foundations of western civilization, citing various old and new statutes, ranging from the Seven Laws of Noah to the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s animal protection statute of 1641, to modern federal and state humane laws. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 6:53 am by David W. White
  If You Have Questions or Concerns About a Medical Malpractice CaseThe attorneys at the Boston, Massachusetts law firm Breakstone, White & Gluck have decades of experience handling medical malpractice cases. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 5:33 am by Jon L. Gelman
Richard Victor, Executive Director of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, and Prof. [read post]