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National Institutes of Health et al v. American Public Health Association
Pix credit here Now many years ago, as the American establishment elite were engaged in the first moments of hand wringing and disaster prognostications on the election of Donal Trump in 2016 I...
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The Israel Cases Continue to Evolve the Jurisprudence of the Norway Pension...
Pix credit hereFollowing recommendations submitted around the end of June by the Council on Ethics, Norges Bank announced its decision to exclude from the Fund’s investments a number of Israeli Banks...
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Animated Signification; Desecration; and Legalization--Brief Reflections on...
Pix credit HERE; Postcard published by The Foundation Press, Inc., 1932. Reproduction of oil painting from series: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris The Pageant of a Nation The objects that tend to manifest...
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CfP: Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association & Teaching...
Pix credit here Delighted to pass along this Call for Papers/Panels for the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association& Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum Conference to be held...
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Meta Oversight Board 2024 Report Made Available--The Thirst for Impact and...
Pix credit here Computers like to count; apparently so do humans. Almost invariably they can count the wrong things, in the sense of counting objects that have little bearing on the conclusion or...
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James Henry Bergeron (editor), and Geoffrey Goodale, Raul Rangel Miguel, and...
Pix credit here I am delighted to share a quite useful short essay, James Henry Bergeron (editor), and Geoffrey Goodale, Raul Rangel Miguel, and Jonathan Meyer (authors): "National Security Law,"The...
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Announcing Publication of of Issue 155 of Vol 34 of the Journal of...
I am delighted to pass along a message from Professor Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) announcing the publication of Volume 34, Issue 155 (September 2025)....
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Announcing Publication the Sepetmber Issue of Current History--The Annual...
I am delighted to pass along the announcement of the publication of the Annual China and East Asia Issue of Current History(Volume 124, Issue 863).Current History publishes nine times per year. Each...
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Brief Reflections on José A. Adrián Torres, "Compañero", el igualitarismo...
Pix credit here Pix credit hereI recently read what turned out to be a fascinating opinion essay, José A. Adrián Torres, Compañero", el igualitarismo ficticio que conduce a la mediocridad: En...
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CfP Heritage in War and Peace V Technology and Heritage through Past, Present...
I am delighted to pass along this Call for Papers for Heritage in War and Peace V: Technology and Heritage through Past, Present and Future which will rake place December 4-5, 2025 in Kaunas...
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Celebrating Labor Day in the U.S. A Brief Reverie
Pix Credit here (working the production line in the TV Series "I Love Lucy)The U.S. Department of Labor devotes a web page to the genesis of Labor Day in the United States:Pix credit hereObserved the...
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2025-26 Greater China Legal History Seminar: Norman P. Ho (Peking University...
I am delighted to pass along notice of a lecture as part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Greater China Legal History Seminar Series. On 12 September 2025 Norman P. Ho (Peking University School...
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Announcing Publication of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Vol. 54, No....
The Belt and Road Initiative was once viewed as a funny version of the Chinese dream; a pretty image of Silk Roads and unattainable in the face of the triumph of a globalizing universal...
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"Can Europe Survive?" Book Launch Event 30 September London
The question of the survival of Europe may be at least as old as the start of the Great European War in 1914, though there have been past iterations of the same anxiety since the realization of the...
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Full Text of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Remarks of Xi Jinping:...
Pix Credit HereAccording to its English language self-description on its website, the Shanghai Cooperation Organizationis a permanent intergovernmental international organization established on June...
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"Internationalism in Multiple Tracks: The UN Binding Treaty on Business and...
Pix credit here The European Society of International Law (ESIL) is holding its 20th annual Conference next week at the Freie Universität (Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin). The conference theme this...
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ABA Program: "Hiccup or Hardball: China's Role in America's Future”"
Pix credit here I ran across an ABA program from a few years ago that may merit a return visit as it may shed some light on the approaches of the current U.S. administration and the way in which the...
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Registration Information For Roundtable “China–U.S.: What Place for Latin...
I am delighted to pass along information about an upcoming workshop. It it passed along from Dr. Eduardo Daniel Oviedo, Investigador Principal del CONICET, Profesor Titular Ordinario de la...
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PowerPoint for Remarks "Internationalism in Multiple Tracks: The UN Binding...
In an earlier post I distributed the text of the remarks I had prepared for delivery 11 September 2025 at the ESIL International Business and Human Rights Interest Group Workshop, (here). The Remarks...
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En Veracruz, Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum destaca recuperación de toda la...
It is very easy to miss the small things that suggest big concepts in Latin America, IN that respect it is always worth watching the Mexican government, Unlike the Brazilians, whose high...
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CfP: "The Chinese New Leviathan: Cultural Subjectivity and Statecraft Today "
Pic credit here I ham happy to pass along this call for papers for the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference. Here is the conference description: Following the fruitful discussion that took...
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"Time will Run Back and Fetch the Age of Gold"
Ring out, ye crystal spheres! 125 Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven’s deep organ blow;...
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Norges Bank Excludes Eramet SA from Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global...
Pix credit hereFollowing a recommendation from the Council on Ethics, Norges Bank has announced its decision to exclude Eramet SA from investment by the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)....
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Presidential Proclamation: "Honoring the Memory of Charlie Kirk"; A Lamentation
Pix credit hereThe French Enlightenment contributed much to modern thought. Like everything else human it had its flaws and ultimately its tragedies as it consumed itself within its own...
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Thoughts on Pablo Lerner, "Muslim Law in Israel", Essay in the BYU Law...
Pix credit hereI was delighted to learn that my colleagues over at the Talk About: Law and Religion Blog, a blog (really a formidable essay site of the the International Center for Law and Religion...
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