The Savory Tort

Football in the Jamestown district of Accra, Ghana ( CC BY-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele) I'm a believer in sport and development and a pa...

Courthouse at Cape Coast, Ghana ( CC BY-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele)

[January 28, 2020]  Greetings, readers.  I am on sabbatical in the spring semester 2020, working on a couple of projects in law and developm...

Comparative Law is so rewarding to teach that I'm probably overcompensated to do it.*  The inherently diverse nature of the course cont...

Transnistria ( Perconte CC BY-SA 2.0) Vladimir Putin is known for multi-tasking foreign policy; that is, he manages bilateral relations...

Attorney Dan Greenberg , friend of the blog and a federal policy adviser in Washington, D.C., contributes this photo from his home neighbo...

Prof. Wortham Professor Leah Wortham joined Dean Peltz-Steele and my Comparative Law class on Wednesday to discuss the crisis of judic...

The National Communication Association met in downtown Baltimore, Md. (All photos by RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0.) UMass Law offers or...

You might have heard some wrangling in the news about whistleblowers.  They're all the rage, lately, even here and there on this blog....

If you're like me, Brexit is a lot to keep up with.  How do you find out the latest developments, when all of your news channels are aro...