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Weekly Roundup: May 5-11, 2023

12 May 2023, 6:30 am

Eccles (Oxford University) and Vanessa Havard-Williams (Linklaters LLP), on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Tags: Climate change, ESG, Financial institutions, Financing conditions, net zero, Sustainability, sustainable finance Q4 2022 Stewardship Activity Report Posted by Benjamin Colton and Michael Younis, State Street Global Advisors, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Tags: Board of Directors, Engagement, ESG, Proxy voting, shareholder interests, Shareholders, Stewardship Racism and Systemic Risk Posted… [read post]

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu

Disquieting Reflections On Jeffrey Toobin’s Homegrown: Timothy Mcveigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

12 May 2023, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson

If Martin Luther called for “the priesthood of all believers,” then I am tempted to endorse “the lawyerhood of all citizens. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

News You Can Use Digest – May 12, 2023

12 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor

George Santos Pleads Not Guilty to Duping Donors, Stealing Campaign Cash to Burnish Wealthy Image Associated Press News – Jake Offenhartz and Michael Sisak | Published: 5/10/2023 U.S. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

Turley Testifies on Censorship in Homeland Security Hearing

11 May 2023, 7:00 am by jonathanturley

Here is the witness list: WITNESSES: Ben Weingarten Investigative Journalist and Columnist Martin Kulldorff, PhD Epidemiologist and Biostatistician Cynthia Miller-Idriss, PhD Professor, School of Public Affairs and School of Education Founding Director, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, American University Jonathan Turley Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Written Statement → Turley.Testimony.CISA. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

News You Can Use Digest – May 5, 2023

5 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor

Thomas had taken legal custody of Mark Martin when he was six years old. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

Canada dispatch: BC inquest finding that 2015 Myles Gray death was homicide shows Canada not exempt from policing problems

4 May 2023, 7:35 am by Mélanie Cantin | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA

Excited delirium is often invoked in police-involved deaths, perhaps most notably in the 2020 murder of George Floyd by police. [read post]

JURIST - Paper Chase - https://www.jurist.org/news/

Early Edition: May 4, 2023

4 May 2023, 3:04 am by Seán Binder

Sappington went to the residence of George Wicker, the senator’s cousin, according to FBI special agent Jason Nixon’s testimony. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Here’s what Esteban is up to now that he is finally in USDA’s top food safety job

30 Apr 2023, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn

Taylor, STOP Foodborne Illness; Craig Wilson, Costco; Sarah George, Costco; Mansour Samadpour, IEH Laboratories, and Consulting Group. [read post]

Food Safety News - http://www.foodsafetynews.com/

Iran court issues $312.9M judgment against US over 2017 Tehran terrorist attack

27 Apr 2023, 4:37 am by Lou Kettering | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US

The listed defendants in the case include the US government, former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W. [read post]

JURIST - Paper Chase - https://www.jurist.org/news/

[Ilya Somin] Oral Argument Indicates Property Rights Likely to Prevail in Supreme Court Home Equity Theft Takings Case

26 Apr 2023, 8:36 pm by Ilya Somin

Another telling indication of where the Court is leaning was that Tyler's attorney, Christina Martin, didn't get asked a single question during her rebuttal time at the end of the oral argument. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Are Extracontractual Bad Faith Claims Governed Under A Choice of Law Provision?

22 Apr 2023, 12:05 pm by Chip Merlin

—George Eliot 1Great Lakes Ins. [read post]

Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog - http://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/

My Report on the Baltimore Report

7 Apr 2023, 4:45 am by Leslie C. Griffin

Father Kenneth Martin 87. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

Reflections on Mary Jo McConahay’s Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right

21 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin

Included are William Barr, William Simon, Alexander Haig, Clare Boothe Luce, Peter Grace, Michael Novak, Bruce Ritter, Peter Thiel, Ross Douthat, and George Weigel. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

News You Can Use Digest – March 17, 2023

17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor

Broker: George Santos. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

Women in Policing

13 Mar 2023, 7:22 am by Jeff Welty

The officers involved in George Floyd’s death were Derek Chauvin, Alexander Keung, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao. [read post]

North Carolina Criminal Law Blog - http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/

The morning read for Friday, March 3

3 Mar 2023, 6:24 am by SCOTUSblog

Martin Center for Academic Renewal) The post The morning read for Friday, March 3 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]