We are so grateful to Professor Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin, Madison) for coming back to the blog this past month and posting a wonderful series of reflections.

Here is a round-up of her contributions, all of which involved the process of writing Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South [...]

Mark Moller, DePaul University College of Law, is publishing The Radical Whig Origins of the Horizontal Necessary and Proper Clause in volume 72 of the Villanova Law Review.

Here is the abstract. [...]

A specter is haunting international legal theory, and according to Monica Hakimi, it is the specter of Thomas Hobbes. It is not that there is widespread demand for a global

leviathan to replace the many domestic ones. The Hobbesian specter, Hakimi argues, resides in the background, in the collective assumptions through which international [...]

The international legal order is in turmoil. It is not simply that international law is in a temporary crisis, as it has been at various moments in earlier decades. It is that

the current situation of crisis of the international legal order appears to have reached a level of pathology never seen before. [...]

For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Ava Liu Ava Liu There is a problem with the concept of “predistribution”, which

is that the idea is ill-defined. At the broadest level, predistribution is defined as what is not tax-and-transfer redistribution. [...]

Watch the Episode:   Co-Hosts Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to discuss how the Trump administration’s campaign of

lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has escalated and evolved in the year since the strikes began. [...]

Zum Ende der Sommerpause veröffentlichen wir diesmal sechs Handschriftenseiten aus den Beständen der Stiftsbibliothek von Sankt Gallen. Fast alle stammen aus dem 9. Jahrhundert,

der Blütezeit der Kapitularien: [...]

Hungarian Academy in Jerusalem Journal Hungarian Academy in Jerusalem Journal     The Hungarian Academy in Jerusalem officially opened its doors on 1 July 2025, after the

Hungarian Government made the historical decision to establish a permanent scientific and cultural presence of the Hungarian state in the Holy City. [...]