Academic

"Institutional Pluralism" at the AALS
I'll confess that I have rarely attended the plenary (now "presidential") programs at past AALS annual meetings. This year's sessions, though -- exploring variations on the annual meeting's "institutional pluralism" theme -- look very interesting...

Global Legal Pluralism
Annual Review of Law & Social Science: "This review discusses how legal pluralism engages with legal globalization and how legal globalization utilizes legal pluralism. It demonstrates how several international legal disciplines -comparative law, conflict of laws, public international law, and European Union law - have slowly begun to adopt some ideas of legal pluralism...

Do We Need Global Governance To Combat Global Warming
The recent Copenhagen Conference on global warming has led to renewed claims that we cannot effectively combat global warming without ?global governance,? or perhaps even a full-fledged world government...

The Parallel Universes of Institutional Investing and Institutional Voting
Editor’s Note: Charles Nathan is Of Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP and is co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Governance Task Force. This post is based on a Latham & Watkins Corporate Governance Commentary by Mr...

Still more on religiously affiliated schools and institutional pluralism
I really appreciate the recent posts -- by Paul, Jason, and Gordon -- on religiously affiliated law schools and law schools' "missions" generally. (For what it's worth, Paul's experience at the religiously affiliated law school at which he recently visited is -- whaddya know! -- very much like my own experience at Notre Dame Law School...

God, Philosophy, Universities
A few times here at Prawfsblawg, the question of law schools' institutional character -- their "mission" -- has come up. I've had a few posts, for example, on what John Garvey has been calling "institutional pluralism", and on the contributions that (I think) meaningfully religious law schools can make, precisely by being distinctive, to the academy and to the profession...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

Right-of-Way
City of Hastings pays preacher $1 settlement and $10,000 in legal fees for constitutional right violations.

Cowboy Hat
Lincoln County pays citizen $10,500 settlement for Constitutional Rights violations.