Harvard Law School Professor Critiques Judicial Supremacy at Inaugural Lecture | News

Harvard Law School professor Daphna Renan gave a critique of judicial supremacy — the idea that the Supreme Court is the final authority on the interpretation of the US Constitution — at an event on Thursday.

Renan delivered the inaugural lecture, hosted by the Law School, as the newly appointed Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law. Thursday’s lecture previewed a new book Renan is co-writing with HLS fellow professor Nikolas “Niko” Bowie.

Renan began by expressing support for “porous legalism,” or a more flexible legal system that would de-emphasize the separations between the judicial, executive, and

How districts decide when to cancel school in cold weather

UPDATES: The Rochester City School District is closed today, as are several districts south of Monroe County.

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School officials will be monitoring the weather closely as a mass of bitter cold air slides into the Rochester area this week.

Wind chill values ​​on Friday are forecast to be in the negative teens, not far from the point where cancellations are recommended.

Each school district in the area determines whether schools should close for the day, but Monroe County’s Department of Public Health offers a guideline to help educators determine how cold is too cold to have school.

Both the

As war crimes mount, Ukraine faces hard choices about prosecutions

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KYIV — The 25 Russians convicted so far of war crimes in Ukrainian courts include a soldier who was forced two Ukrainians at gunpoint to hand over laptops and money, four who beat and tortured Ukrainian soldiers and two who admitted shelling residential buildings in the first weeks of the war.

Over 66,000 additional alleged war crimes have been reported to Ukrainian authorities since the Russian invasion last February, according to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General. The number is growing by hundreds every day as investigators fan out into the area retaken from the

This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 23rd January 2023 – UKSCBlog

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th January 2023, the court will hear the case of Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others. The issue in this case is whether the Court of Appeal erred in its approach to section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996 in finding that one of Mozambique’s claims were ‘matters’ outside the scope of the relevant arbitration agreements, when giving judgment at [2021] EWCA 329.

Also on Wednesday, the Court will

The improbability of George Santos’ $199 expenses

Santos reported 40 of them.

In fact, his campaign accounted for roughly half of all expenses by all campaigns that cost exactly $199.99 — a statistical improbability.

The rarity of campaign expenses falling so close to the legal limit for retaining receipts has raised concerns that the Santos campaign’s disbursements were “deliberately falsified,” a complaint from the Campaign Legal Center alleges. Major questions about Santos’ campaign financing remain unanswered, including the source of $700,000 that the New York congressman ostensibly loaned to his campaign despite questions about his personal finances.

“This was a multi-thousand dollar operation,” said Adav Noti, a

Government Control Over the Flow of Information: Lord Sumption Speaks Out Against the Online Safety Bill in the Latest Episode of Law Pod UK

Author: Rosalind English

The Online Safety Bill is currently making its way through the House of Commons, having reached the report stage in July. The bill’s concept of “legal but harmful” is controversial, and has attracted criticism from high places, not least of all former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption. Lord Sumption joins Rosalind English in this episode to discuss the problems involved in defining this kind of harm and the concepts of “misinformation and disinformation” in the Bill.

Lord Sumption worries about the “sheer randomness” of the process for identifying legal but harmful material, and points out that the

Be Reasonable: The Enforceability of Post-termination Restrictive Covenants

The impact on working arrangements caused by the pandemic has led many workers to re-evaluate what they want from a job, with considerations such as flexible and remote working becoming both more desirable and attainable. This is affecting businesses in all sectors, and the impact it can have is not only on a business’s workforce but also on its customer base that is far reaching.

One of the most important things to consider when a worker leaves a business is restrictive covenants. These are often contained in the employee’s employment contract, service agreement or, in some circumstances, a shareholders agreement.

F1 News: Update On Michael Schumacher’s Condition Hinted At In Indian Supreme Court – F1 Briefings

F1 legend Michael Schumacher was referred to in a major court case in India over the “living will” argument, where a brief update on his condition was given.

The German driver was used as an example in court where they gave a brief update on his current condition. Schumacher’s family has been kept very private since his horrific skiing accident in December 2013. He was skiing off the piste with his son, Mick, where he fell and hit his head on a rock. The F1 icon was put in a medically induced coma until the following June.

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