• MacDonnell on The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 @ColoLaw

    Updated: 2023-08-29 19:32:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture August 29, 2023 MacDonnell on The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 ColoLaw Lawrence MacDonnell , University of Colorado Law School , is publishing The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 in volume 33 of Western Legal History 2023 Here is the abstract . This article provides a recounting of the negotiation of the Colorado River Compact in 1922. It discusses the evolution of the negotiation process and the compromises and agreements . It provides a summary of key Compact provisions . It then briefly discusses the ratification process and final Congressional adoption . Finally it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Compact provisions after 100 . years Download the article from SSRN

  • Tang on Lessons From Lawrence: How "History" Gave Us Dobbs--And How History Can Help Overrule It @AaronTangLaw @UCDavisLaw @YaleLJournal

    Updated: 2023-08-13 15:14:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture August 13, 2023 Tang on Lessons From Lawrence : How History Gave Us Dobbs--And How History Can Help Overrule It AaronTangLaw UCDavisLaw YaleLJournal Aaron Tang , University of California , Davis , School of Law , is publishing Lessons From Lawrence : How History Gave Us Dobbs—And How History Can Help Overrule It in volume 133 of the Yale L . J . Forum 2023 Here is the abstract . Dobbs v . Jackson Women’s Health Organization is not the first time the Supreme Court has relied on dubious history to deny a constitutional right of profound importance . When the Court rejected what it described as the right of homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy” in Bowers v . Hardwick , it

  • Kirkby on Abysmal Jurisprudence: On the Genesis of John Finnis's Practical Guide to Statesmen @JSI_Sydney

    Updated: 2023-08-11 18:59:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture August 11, 2023 Kirkby on Abysmal Jurisprudence : On the Genesis of John Finnis's Practical Guide to Statesmen JSI_Sydney Coel Kirkby , University of Sydney Law School , has published Abysmal Jurisprudence : On the Genesis of John Finnis’s Practical Guide to Statesmen Here is the abstract . John Finnis’s central role in Brexit was only the latest intervention in a long life of practical action that recommends a closer examination of the genesis of his distinctive philosophy . He always insisted that it was intended primarily to assist the practical reflections of those concerned to act , whether as judges or as statesmen or as citizens . 8217 In this article , I argue that Finnis

  • Rutherford on Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945 @uvic

    Updated: 2023-08-08 20:01:00
    : , , : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture August 8, 2023 Rutherford on Racism , Segregation , Acceptance : American Economics and Black Issues , 1890-1945 uvic Malcolm Rutherford , University of Victoria , Department of Economics , has published Racism , Segregation , Acceptance : American Economics and Black Issues , 1890-1945 Here is the abstract . The American economics profession has a tortured relationship with the study of issues relating to Black Americans . This paper traces that history from overt racism in the period up to about 1910, the rejection of Du Bois' attempts to work with the American Economic Association , a long period during which Black scholarship on Black issues was simply ignored , to the

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