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4 Jul 2017, 6:48 am
The last two decades have witnessed an increase in corporate board reforms designed to create greater board independence, audit committee and auditor independence, and separation of the chairman and chief executive officer positions. [read post]
4 Jul 2017, 6:04 am by Randy Barnett
The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Dale Carpenter
Texas law requires children who attend public schools to begin their days with this trifecta: the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge (“Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible”), and a minute of silence to “reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 12:25 pm by John Hopkins
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 8:38 am by Lawrence Solum
At some point, if we put too much weight on our democratic institutions, they will snap. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 4:34 am by Lawrence Solum
Only after this invention was the monopoly of the elected institutions over the claim of holding public support broken. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 4:03 pm by INFORRM
  A summary of the judgment is available on Lawtel [£] Events 6 July 2017, “The Legal Challenges of Social Media,” Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR 6 July 2017, IPSO Annual Lecture, John Whittingdale, 6pm Church House, Westminster. 26 February 2018, “Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference,” Ottowa, Canada. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 8:13 am
The Declaration of Independence — which we celebrate this weekend — says that the Creator gave us these rights and that the people institute government to protect the rights that God endowed us with. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 3:10 am by Chip Merlin
Positive Thought For The Day “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws….But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. [read post]
1 Jul 2017, 12:00 pm by Jane Chong
  I wrote last November that the Foreign Emoluments Clause “is on its face a national security provision designed to the protect the country from officers too enmeshed with foreign interests. [read post]
1 Jul 2017, 12:08 am
Witnesses included Terence Halliday, co-director of the Center on Law & Globalization at the American Bar Foundation and co-author of the book Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work; Teng Biao, Chinese human rights lawyer and a Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study; Li Xiaorong, independent scholar and former researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland; and Xia Chongyu, the son of imprisoned… [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 5:11 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Gelb, Anthony Morgan and Toni Makkai (Monash University - Faculty of Law, Australian National University (ANU), Independent, Australian Institute of Criminology and Australian National University (ANU) ) have posted Drug and Specialist Courts... [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 10:21 am by Will Baude
Moreover, the sheer volume of cert-stage cases makes it much harder for the Court’s independent research to make up for the party’s deficiencies, though of course the very smart law clerks in the cert. pool will do their best. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 9:30 am
Where the government supports similarly situated entities, can or must it support religious institutions as well, or does such support amount to an establishment of religion? [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 6:24 am by Jim Sedor
” New Mexico – State Ethics Panel Is a Work in ProgressAlbuquerque Journal – Dan Boyd | Published: 6/21/2017 New Mexico lawmakers approved the creation of an independent ethics commission during this year’s legislative session, but there is still much unsettled about how the body would function, even if it is approved by voters next year. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 6:01 am
Hall, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Tags: Boards of Directors, CHOICE Act, Engagement, Institutional Investors, Ownership, Proxy access, Proxy voting, SEC, Securities regulation, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting “Captured Boards”: The Rise of “Super Directors” and the Case for a Board Suite Posted by Kobi Kastiel, Harvard Law School, and Yaron Nili, University of… [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 4:13 am by SHG
Tepe, a Sixth Circuit case holding that a part-time prison psychiatrist was not entitled to assert qualified immunity because there was “no common-law tradition of immunity for a private doctor working for a public institution. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 4:04 pm by INFORRM
Its power is concentrated across media unlike any other news organisation or institution, and this acquisition would consolidate that power still further. [read post]