Blogs about Law

For the Balkinization Symposium on Solangel Maldonado, The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (New York University Press, 2024). Rick Banks There's a lot to love in this book …

What the MK party did when it nominated Dr John Hlophe as its representative on the Judicial Service Commission was to give its voters what they wanted: defiance, contempt and chaos. The nomination was not …

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China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative continues to expand its project financing activities to around 147 countries in the world as of this writing. This exceptional global footprint, undertaken primarily through sovereign lending or sovereign-driven …

In which my optimism about policy under the new Labour government reaches Sorkinesque levels.

Blank screen on boot and external monitors not detectedI recently installed Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) on a laptop and all was well. I had been using flavours of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but when I …

The following is a guest post by Esther Markov, an intern working with Assistant Law Librarian of Congress for Legal Research Peter Roudik, in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. …

26th July 2024 Often the criminal cases that feature prominently in the news are really not interesting from a legal(istic) perspective. One could quite happily commentate on interesting legal issues and never engage with a …

(This guest post was written by Scott Maravilla. Thanks Scott! NB: This post includes minor spoilers for She-Hulk episode 3! And in case you’re wondering, I have been keeping up with the series, and I …

Is a taco a “sandwich”? Yes, as a state court in Fort Wayne, Indiana, said on May 13. Quintana v. Fort Wayne Plan Commission, No. 02D02-2212-PL-414 (Super. Ct. Allen County May 13, 2024). Is a …

Right here. They make some mistakes about the firearms, but it's otherwise good. One question I've had: what were the two Secret Service counter-snipers doing without spotters? Each should have had a spotter with binoculars …

by Dennis Crouch Return Mail recently filed its petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court, seeking a broader scope of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. You may remember that Return Mail won its …

Advocates want answers after The Markup found the department sharing student data with Meta By: Colin Lecher A new federal lawsuit, scheduled to be filed as soon as today, accuses the Department of Education of …

Inforrm reported on a large number of defamation cases from around the world in 2023. Following a now established tradition, with my widely read posts on 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 defamation cases, …

X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. is being reported in the press for an odd proposition, quoting this sentence: “X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner’s …

ShareThe Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate so-called “ghost guns” in the first week of the 2024-25 term in October, followed the next day by an unusual death-penalty …

…and still a half-measure. The other guy is also too old. My generation needs to get off the ballot. I'm afraid history is repeating itself, this time with a geriatric with clear cognitive difficulties (that …

This is a FOSTA case. It reached the 9th Circuit on personal jurisdiction grounds. The 9th Circuit held that some foreign defendants were subject to jurisdiction. On remand, the court dismisses the remaining defendants primarily …

Laut OVG Nordrhein-Westfalen besteht für Zivilpersonen in Syrien keine ernsthafte, individuelle Lebensgefahr mehr aufgrund des Bürgerkriegs; Rückkehrer:innen hätten außerdem keine zielgerichteten Menschenrechtsverletzungen zu befürchten. Nicht nur der Flüchtlingsschutz, der bereits seit Jahren kaum noch an …