LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. What does this data mean for the future of access to law, particularly in the face of generative AI? What was the scanning process like?

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Related: Governor Newsom’s recall could trigger litigation about his successor in the Supreme Court, where a prior ruling may or may not be precedential. Are two unpublished Supreme Court decisions on recall elections precedential?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Professor Kerameus started his academic career at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in his home town, and completed his career at the University of Athens. He taught Civil Procedure, Comparative and International Procedural Law in Greek and other leading Universities abroad.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 17, 2022

Every Monday and Wednesday, we have featured a woman from our class of 2022. Nicole Morris is Professor & Director of Innovation and Legal Tech at Emory University School of Law. When I joined Emory Law in 2015, I discovered that there were very few law & technology programs in legal education.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Biden administration is calling on law firms and law schools to help fight evictions following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to remove protections created by the federal government in response to the pandemic, reports Bloomberg News.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 25, 2022

KOÇ UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL . CASE LAW SYMPOSIUM: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DOMESTIC, INTERNATIONAL, AND FOREIGN JUDICIARIES. Koç University Law School is pleased to invite applications for the case law symposium on recent developments in domestic, international, and foreign judiciaries which will be held on 7 October 2022.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 13, 2022

Private International Law Festival. After two years of living through a global pandemic, the very first Private International Law Festival from 16 to 17 May 2022, held in Edinburgh, was the first opportunity for many to finally meet other scholars and exchange ideas in person again. 16 to 17 May 2022. Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Dissatisfied with the purchase, Buckley eventually obtained a judgment in a California state court based on the failure of the Bartenwerfers to disclose information about the house on the standard-form Transfer Disclosure Statement. Buckley also emphasizes a Supreme Court decision from 1885 (not a typo), Strang v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

“Our research into pregnancy in English prisons (there are no women’s prisons in Wales), published this week, has convinced me that imprisoning pregnant women is disproportionate, cruel and simply unnecessary,” said Epstein, an honorary research fellow at Coventry Law School.

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? The leading Supreme Court decision, United States v.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 10, 2021

Dodge (Professor, University of California, Davis, School of Law). & & Wenliang Zhang (Associate Professor, Renmin University of China Law School). The decision disagrees with every other U.S. The agreement was governed by Chinese law and provided that suits could be resolved by courts in Beijing.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2023

Written by Christina Shin, University of Sydney Law School On 1 June 2023, International Children’s Day, the University of Sydney’s Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) hosted an online webinar discussing the issue of children’s welfare and voices in private international law (PIL).

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! More law schools are kicking USNWR rankings to the curb. We're now at 10 percent of law schools that say they will not participate in the ranking process.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Some worked behind the scenes. A few attained modest fame.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 3, 2022

Jackson, 51, also adds to the relative “youth” of the current Court, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh also in their 50s. Jackson Brings Diversity to the Supreme Court. Like many of her peers on the Supreme Court, Jackson attended a prestigious law school, graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

To quote Ginsburg, with three justices previously voting against such race-based criteria and the three Trump appointees, “that’s about as solid as you can get” for a major reframing of the controlling case law. The court has spent decades issuing often conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings on the use of race in admissions.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. Harlan also joined a unanimous court in 1889 in rejecting a challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The back story.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The court correctly noted that, under the Supreme Court’s holding in American Electric Power v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

However, he then said it was worth extending the moratorium because it would take time for a court to intervene and, in the interim, they could rush out money to renters despite the lack of constitutional authority to do so. Like many, I was mystified by the Supreme Court decision not to strike down the moratorium.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. Trump’s Jan. If we don’t, we cannot go away.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

Wolfe rattles off extreme proposals matter-of-factly as all viable options: Anyone concerned about the Supreme Court today should be working to prise that window open further. What these ideas share is a recognition that the rights-giving 20th-century Court that liberals came to respect, even revere, is gone.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. 3d 849 (9th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Now, Harvard Law Professor and Bloomberg columnist has added a Trump-like call for the use of defamation lawsuit to combat “fake news.” The threat to the free press is obvious and was the basis for foundational court decisions. Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. seven times.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. There have been some justices who have stressed it.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 10, 2023

To quote Ginsburg, with three justices previously voting against such race-based criteria and the three Trump appointees, “that’s about as solid as you can get” for a major reframing of the controlling case law. The court has spent decades issuing often conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings on the use of race in admissions.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Professor Seth Barrett Tillman, a New York native who teaches law at Maynooth University School of Law in Kildare, Ireland, has been thinking and writing about some of the issues around Section 3 since at least 2014, including his view that the president is not “an officer of the United States.” Thomas in St. Term Limits v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Yet, the lack of precedent or clarity did not deter these justices from making new law to block Trump from running. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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