Month: November 2017

It's hard for me to believe that 2017 is so far along that we're getting ready for the end-of-year celebrations -- like lists of the best books of the year. …

Somehow I failed to post about this earlier.  Tulane Law School has posted a call for papers for "A Conference of Global Perspectives: Regimes of Redress and Reparations, Transitional Justice, and…

Wenhao Liu and I have just posted to SSRN a draft of our paper discussing Nate Oman’s book, The Dignity of Commerce.  For those of you who have not yet…

At legal academic conferences, as well as academic conferences in other fields, it has become increasingly common for attendees to live tweet from sessions they attend, using hashtags that they…

Dean of the School of Law Gonzaga University Gonzaga University invites nominations and applications for the Dean of the School of Law. The Dean reports to the Provost/Senior Vice President…

And you can get it at a discount.  My new book, Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation After Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises  (Cambridge University Press, November 2017) is finally here. It…

Friday, November 17 – Saturday, November 18, 2017 The Forum is designed to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique by their more senior colleagues in the legal academy and, ...

For the past several years, it has seemed as though physicians in the U.S. and the U.K. have been speaking different languages about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as Myalgic…

"When it all comes down, you've got to go back to Mother Earth"    

On the always-interesting Balkinization blog, Marty Lederman has an extensive and thoughtful analysis of “The SG’s Remarkable Cert. Petition in Hargan v. Garza, the “Jane Doe” Abortion Case.”  The case,…