A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

On January 29, 2010, ten religious folk were taken into custody after trying to smuggle a gaggle of Haitian children (nearly three dozen) across the DR border.  Just two days later, several men were arrested in Periamet, India, for stealing panchaloha idols.  No connection worth mentioning, really, ...

The Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter is seeking article proposals on all things cultural property.  The newsletter is a publication of the Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the ABA Section of International Law. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember a post about ...

The Rutter Group's annual seminar on 17200 practice will take place on Monday, March 1, 2010 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco and on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at the Los Angeles Mariott Downtown. This year, I am pleased...

Rebecca M. Kysar (Brooklyn) presents Lasting Legislation at McGill today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Kimberly Brooks. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that, due to certain failings and pathologies of the legislative process, legislation enacted with sunset provisions ...

Rebecca M. Kysar (Brooklyn) presents Lasting Legislation at McGill today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Kimberly Brooks. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that, due to certain failings and pathologies of the legislative process, legislation enacted with sunset provisions ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com. They called it a “miracle.” Maybe it wasn’t the Spirit of 1776, but something derivative of that was in ...

Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah) and W. William Weeks (Indiana-Bloomington) have posted Hicks v. Dowd, Conservation Easements, and the Charitable Trust Doctrine: Setting the Record Straight on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This is the fourth in an exchange of articles published...

Only one primary race for Jefferson District Court this year Jefferson County District Court has 17 divisions, but only one will feature a primary race for judge this year. Three candidates want to be the district court judge for the 14th division: Jan Brightwell, Stephanie Pearce B ...

Tom Flynn, art historian and critic of critics, is a top notch blogger — with witty, incisive, and insightful posts.  His recent post, A History of the World in Looted Objects, is no exception. The colonialist implications of encyclopedic museums may be old hat in the blogging world by now, bu ...