Legal Journals

Conflict of Laws and EU Law
Dash over to the Conflict of Laws blog. There's a terrific guest editorial by Professor Horatia Muir-Watt on "Reshaping Private International Law in a Changing World". It contains many insights that a student of EU law would appreciate...

French Court: Donnez Des Notes Aux Professeurs, C'est Interdit
Unlike U.S. students, French students are apparently not allowed to "rate their profs," at least according to a French court. French unions and the French education ministry filed a lawsuit when a website popped up purporting to do that, claiming...

The French versus Scottish-English styles in American Writing
The ruckus that I caused with my (admittedly intemperate but, I hope, harmless) Bronx cheer for Judith Butler reminds me of a serious topic -- which is the durability of an Brit-French divide in American political writing...

Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out
Thomas Powers reviews the following books in his May 29, 2008 New York Review of Books article: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J...

French RIAA Announces Deadline to Ban File-Sharers from the Internet
The EFF recently is pointing us new disturbing demands by the French version of the RIAA known as SNEP (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique). Among the demands are a deadline for laws to be put in place that would disconnecting file-sharers from the internet and the ability to serve as police, judge and jury against French P2P users...

Opening: Freelance Bibliographer, BNA Books
BNA Books is looking for an editor to compile, in the next several months, a one-year update to the bibliography for the ABA/BNA treatise International Labor and Employment Laws, Volume I (by approximately June 1) and to prepare the bibliography...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Grubb & Ellis
alleging violations of fiduciary duties to shareholders and securities laws.

Hewlett-Packard and Staples
allegedly violated antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.

Damaged Billboards
Lamar Advertising pays $35,000 settlement after violating permit laws.

ValueClick
allegedly violated consumer protection laws by promising ‘free’ goods that where not actually free.