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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Apple Music drops Lady Gaga, Leo Messi interviews; L.A. producer Steele was behind the scenes

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Morgan Steele , my daughter, based in Los Angeles, has worked lately on some star-studded and classified projects, two now public. This (bel...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

'Toxic Town' features real-life, toxic-tort tragedy in UK

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Premiering on February 27, Toxic Town ( IMDb ), a compelling new miniseries on Netflix, fictionalizes a true story of toxic tort in Englan...
Friday, March 7, 2025

FOIA committee meets after firing of National Archivist

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Yesterday, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , on which I am privileged to serve, held a public meeting, available o...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Texas attorney launches football (soccer) podcast

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A Texas attorney , co-author , and former student, Jose Benavides officially has launched his football (soccer)-and-politics podcast, The L...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Digital rights defenders gather in Taipei to tackle mass surveillance, online propaganda, authoritarianism

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Culled from my notes, here are some of the most interesting things I heard last week in Taipei at RightsCon , the world's leading summit...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Civil conflict in Mali devastates innocents, while indifference, deference to Russia undermine U.S. policy

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U.N. peacekeepers, here a Togolese soldier near Mopti in 2018, provided enough security for local markets to function. MINUSMA (UN Mission i...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Comparative law research reaches prisoner rights; women's rights; tech patents; internet, drug reg

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Law Offices of James L. Arrasmith CC BY-NC 4.0 In fall 2024, I had the privilege of teaching Comparative Law for the sixth time. For my tim...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Researcher seeks to ease persistent anticompetitive constraints on indie films in online environment

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Yaleth Calderon , a film school graduate and candidate for the California bar, has published a law review note on antitrust, online technolo...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Americans can't find doctors in sick system, but docs whine too loudly on debt, ignore excessive earnings

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In the current AARP Bulletin  ( pay wall , Apple News ), New York Dr. Howard Zucker capably explains why Americans are being squeezed by a ...