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Morning Docket: 04.17.23

Above The Law

CNN ] * US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. That seems bad.

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Gun Violence: When ‘Self-Defense’ Becomes Murder

The Crime Report

jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression.

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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. Justice Kagan asked if the required mental state in the statute helps to alleviate that concern. No citation [to the record].

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

Conflict of Laws

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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Extraterritoriality and International Law Conference and Webinar, September 15-17, 2021

Conflict of Laws

Marek Martyniszyn , Interim Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen’s University Belfast Law School. Antitrust and Competition Law. Moderator: Kish Parella , Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Clearbrief CEO Jacqueline Schafer: Transforming Written Legal Arguments With AI

Attorney at Work

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. How do you see this technology changing the way legal writing is taught in law schools?

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Giustizia consensuale No 2/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

While prior legislation contained limited references to criminal mediation – prohibiting it in gender violence cases and allowing it in juvenile justice – the subsequent implementation of the Victims’ Statute in 2015 explicitly mentioned the incorporation of restorative justice mechanisms into the criminal field. and Melissa A.