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Showing posts with label public policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public policy. Show all posts
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wood wins Rappaport Fellowship

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Rebecca Wood BC Law Rebecca Wood, a survivor of my 1L torts classes, has won a prestigious Rappaport Fellowship in law and public policy. W...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Court quashes $19m side deal in casino creation

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Encore Boston Harbor, shiny and new in 2018. Photo by Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 A $19m side deal in a major casino r...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Polisci papers track Ukraine war to Arctic, UN, internet

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The war in Ukraine occasioned several papers at last weekend's annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Employer may not fire for personnel rebuttal, high court holds, even though statute provides no remedy

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Reversing a problematic and divided intermediate appellate court decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cour...
Friday, January 29, 2021

New England poli sci group announces virtual meeting, extends CFP deadline for faculty, grad students

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NEPSA art The New England Political Science Association (NEPSA) has decided that its spring 2021 annual conference will be all virtual. Th...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Divided court allows employee firing for exercising statutory right to supplement personnel record

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An at-will employee may be fired for rebutting an adverse employment action, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Laws suspending driver licenses for fines need reform

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Spencer K. Schneider , a 3L at UMass Law and teaching assistant in my Torts I-II classes, has authored an article for the National Lawyers ...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Supreme Court vacates First Amendment decision, tells lower court to certify negligence question to Louisiana

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Mckesson ( HimmelrichPR CC BY-SA 2.0 ) A negligence lawsuit blaming Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson for injury to a police off...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Springer 'Law and Development' book: Introduction is now free for download

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Recently I announced the publication of Law and Development , a new collection of research articles from multi-national and multi-discipli...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Multidisciplinary 'Law and Development' book tackles hard problems from principled perspectives

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[UPDATE, March 31, 2020: The Introduction to Law and Development is now available for free download from Springer, via SSRN .] I am th...
Friday, February 7, 2020

Northwestern Law celebrates Professor Marshall Shapo [POSTPONED]

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Professor Marshall Shapo is a dear mentor and a giant of American tort law and public policy.  I am selfishly disappointed that I cannot be...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Teachable torts: Halloween haunted houses strain hallowed American right to make poor choices

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As the sun sets in the U.S. East, I was prepared to let Halloween slide by on the blog, even though so many great tort-related items perenni...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

CFP: New England Political Science Association to meet in Mystic, Conn., April 2020

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The New England Political Science Association has released its CFP for the annual meeting in April 2020, which will take place in Mystic, C...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

'Lights, Camera, Execution!': Political scientist Helen Knowles co-authors new book on capital punishment and popular culture

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A new book by poli sci prof and legal researcher extraordinaire Dr. Helen Knowles , SUNY Oswego, has hit the shelf.  It explores the dark ed...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

The Adventures of Mass. App. and the 700 Gold Coins

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                                                       pnging.com CC BY-NC 4.0 The Massachusetts Appeals Court dove into foreign law an...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

3Ps for 1Ls: Advice for the new law student

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We have 96 new faces at UMass Law School this fall semester.   New students often ask for advice: how best to prepare for class?   There is ...
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