Heath on Chinese Boycotts
Legal History Blog shares new work by Prof. Ben Heath on early 20th-century boycotts as “insurgent legal ordering” and their relevance for economic sanctions in the international legal order today. Read More
Legal History Blog shares new work by Prof. Ben Heath on early 20th-century boycotts as “insurgent legal ordering” and their relevance for economic sanctions in the international legal order today. Read More
Prof. Paul Gugliuzza explains and defends the standard of review in a rare decision by the US Judicial Conference’s Committee on Conduct and Disability to uphold the suspension of an Article III judge. Read More
The men’s basketball team at Dartmouth has won the right to be classified as school employees and join a student workers’ union. Prof. Ken Jacobsen sees significant consequences for college sports, especially at less well-funded schools. Read More
An academic publisher has retracted three studies that found adverse effects from taking mifepristone, used in medication abortions, for serious scientific flaws, as a case that cited the work heads to the Supreme Court. Dean Rachel Rebouche says the bigger issue is about “deference to a federal agency’s expertise.” Read More
Prof. Ken Jacobsen and Philadelphia City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas discuss a first-in-the-nation partnership that will provide legal guidance to student-athletes considering Name, Image, and Likeness deals. Read More
The Supreme Court heard arguments about whether bankruptcy court is the proper venue for resolving claims of widespread social harm. Prof. Jonathan Lipson explains what’s at stake in this CBC video post. Watch
As SCOTUS hears arguments about whether bankruptcy law permits the Sackler family to escape liability in the Purdue Pharma case, Prof. Jonathan Lipson looks to the conservative majority’s textualism: “they do not believe ‘Congress hides elephants in mouseholes.’” Read More
Abortion access is headed back to the Supreme Court. Dean Rachel Rebouche explains the issues and what’s at stake – not just for abortion, but regulation of all medications – in this episode of KYW’s InDepth podcast. Listen
Prof. Paul Gugliuzza, Dean Rachel Rebouche, and co-author Jordana Goodman’s intersectional analysis of the appellate patent bar shows no correlation between race, gender, and success rate. So why is the private patent bar overwhelmingly white and male and what can be done about it? Read More
The Supreme Court will once again rule on abortion access, this time reviewing portions of a Fifth Circuit decision about FDA approval of mifepristone. Dean Rebouche cautions against assumptions about the Court’s focus in the case. Read More