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19 Dec 2017, 4:00 am
They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I’ll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill’s Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode’s founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom… [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:52 pm
[UPDATE 07/07/2011: The Diocese of Nevada has finally issued a clarifying statement about this matter, in which Bishop Dan Edwards insists: "As I review what was done 2002 - 2004, I find no fault with the actions of any of our people, lay or ordained. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 10:48 am
The manner in which the medical community and archaeologists handle evidence is hair-raising and can be exemplified again with current events in the case of the DNA and CT study of Tutankhamun.Who was Tutankhamun and was he murdered by the Philistines? [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 7:24 am
Last week the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at NUI Galway and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability ran a Summer School entitled “The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – From Paper Rules to Action”. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 11:53 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) With this post Flora Sapio and I (and friends from time to time) continue an experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 6:21 am
To my great delight, I was asked to review Jan Broekman's brilliant new work, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversation (Springer Nature, 2023). [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 10:00 am
For the Symposium on the Constitution and Economic InequalityJed Purdy Fishkin & Forbath’s (F&F’s) manuscript is a project of recovery. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 5:36 pm
I am delighted to share the video recording of the event recently sponsored by the Penn State Law Federalist Society: "Natural Law and the US Constitutional Order" which was held at Penn State law 12 April 2022. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 7:31 pm
(From Adam Fisher, Skipping Stones, Genkaku-Again, May 25, 2009) The cultural importance of veiling the underlying presumptions and mechanics of actions and beliefs-- of seeing reality and of being satisfied to follow instructions that are bound up in a reality that must neither be seen nor questioned--is very strong. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 9:09 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 3:25 am
© Max Kennerly. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:14 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 11:49 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 7:25 am
Invariably, however, elites develop a sort of proprietary relationship with such projects--with the intellectuals (in some cultures especially academic intellectuals) serving as a sort of orthodox priesthood of ideas and the political classes molding this priestly direction toward more useful objectives. [read post]
