From Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and PResident, ASLCH: This is a reminder that the Association for the Study
of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is currently accepting submissions for its Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference, which will take place at [...]
What impact did communist education systems have on people’s health? Joan Costa-Font and Anna Nicinska find evidence Soviet-style education systems produced clear health
benefits due to their emphasis on physical … Continued [...]
This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Maxwell Stearns's new book, Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in his end-of-the-year press conference that Western “promises that they had given us about refraining from expanding NATO were being
ignored.” Just two days earlier in a Dec. 17 meeting with the Russian Defense Ministry’s Collegium, Putin said Russia was “insisting” that NATO fulfill [...]
The Trump administration wants to recruit a new kind of private to the U.S. army: private equity. According to the Financial Times, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent are requesting “clever financing models” from some of the largest private equity firms, including Apollo, Carlyle, Cerberus, and KKR, [...]
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AND PACIFIC OPERATIONS “I am pleased to announce that [Venezuela] will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the [...]
An der Universität Wien findet am 28. und 29. Mai 2026 ein Workshop zum Thema „Life After Death: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on the Global Now” statt. Die Absicht
des Workshops ist es, feministische, queere, anti-rassistische, dekoloniale und ökologische Forschungsperspektiven auf aktuelle Krisenerscheinungen sowie auf „possibilities [...]
Poland’s “rule of law crisis” started in December 2015 with the irregular appointment of three individuals to already occupied seats on Poland’s Constitutional Court
(CT). It will not end with the Court of Justice’s judgment of 18 December 2025, finding this body to no longer meet the requirements of an independent and impartial [...]
Die Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie plant einen thematischen Schwerpunkt zu „Privatsphäre in digitalen Umgebungen“, herausgegeben von Lukas Naegeli (Passau). Eingeladen
sind philosophische Beiträge, die sich kritisch u.a. mit Datenschutz, digitaler Überwachung, datenbasierten Geschäftsmodellen, informierter Einwilligung, Vulnerabilität, [...]
