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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Let's 'open up our libel laws': I'm with Thomas

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There's been a blustering rash of hand-wringing in journalism and First Amendment circles over the recent concurrence to cert. denial b...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Beyond anthropomorphism: Research posits post-humanist animal rights

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Tomorrow the UMass Law Review will ceremoniously launch its volume 14.  Included therein is a deep, thought-provoking work on animal rights...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

UMass Law prof learns immigration law in action

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Prof. Farber My UMass Law colleague Professor Hillary Farber is " Blogging from the Border " this semester, as she works for ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Remembering 'very unique,' 'extremely historic,' pre- post-literate politics

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Comedic media have recently lampooned with delight the President's sing-song description of litigation over the "national emergency...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

International arbitration, U.S. common law collide in skilled student note

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I have been remiss not to mention earlier an incisive work on arbitration law by Chad Yates, '19. "Manifest Disregard in Internatio...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Court's strike against Mass. wiretap law for recording police raises bigger questions of 'right to receive,' freedom of information

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The "right to receive" expression or information is the long neglected, often doubted, and sometimes maligned sibling of the freed...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Federal court holds Syria liable to U.S. family for $300m in killing of journalist Marie Colvin

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Syria owes more than $300m in wrongful death damages to the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while working for the...
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Teachable moment in Torts:
'Complaint alleges mom with dementia dumped outside Long Beach healthcare facility'

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National media this week picked up this story from CBS Los Angeles about a woman suffering from dementia who wound up on the street after w...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Research examines accountability through journalism and right to information in India

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I've published a research article ( available on SSRN ), "Accountability in the Private Sector: African Ambition for Right to Inf...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Research proposes U.S. FOIA reform upon South African example

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I've published in the Villanova Law Review , "Access to Information in the Private Sector: African Inspiration for U.S. FOIA Refor...