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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Politics complicates football: Sympathy for ... Iran

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As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Anti-corruption law violates business-owner privacy, EU court holds with myopic appraisal of transparency

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A key European Union transparency law that allows watchdogs to trace corporate ownership to combat corruption has been struck down by the E...

With FIFA World Cup under way in Qatar, law students study sport and soft power, law and development

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I'll be talking law, development, and the World Cup today in Kraków, Poland. Thanks to the American Law Scientific Circle (KNPA) and Am...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Monday, November 14, 2022

In shadow of Ukraine war, webinar tells story of UN Genocide Convention, Polish-Jewish jurist Lemkin

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The Jagiellonian Law Society and its President Elizabeth Zechenter , a visiting scholar at Emory, have put together another superb program...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

'Behind Bars': Petroff article explains how secrecy shields private prison labor from public scrutiny

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Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Upcoming NFOIC Summit features access all-stars

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Access-to-information (ATI, RTK, FOI) enthusiasts are invited and encouraged to attend the online 2022 summit of the National Freedom of Inf...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Proposed Biden rule would try again to compel airline pricing transparency; it worked out so well last time

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President Biden has his own plane. (U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) The U.S. Department of Transportation (DO...