Navigating the Legal Globe: Strategies for Foreign and Comparative Law Research

Judicial opinions ought, on the one hand, to lead all genres in rigorously foregrounding doubt—confronting, weighing, vanquishing doubt in the pursuit...

H"Hard conversations" are having a moment. Under banners like Dialogue Across Difference, Brave Conversations, and Think Again, colleges across the...

Efficiency is one of the main selling points for new AI-powered tools, but efficiency is oftentimes the result of the AI tool and invisible human...

March was a whirlwind month of writing for me. I had two articles due by the end of the month and, though I had already done a lot of research and...

On February 4, 2026, the CIA posted on their website “Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell.” The short story lauded the World...

Recent events have me thinking about how we teach international law in the United States. In talking to colleagues, reading the news, and comparing...

Legal education must embrace technology as an integral component of preparing students for the practice of law. To achieve this, I propose...

In July 1826, law professor John Tayloe Lomax stepped into his Pavilion III classroom and into a new experiment in American legal education. At a time...

With a new academic year and the continuing evolution of AI systems, comes new questions of how to help students and faculty ethically and effectively...

We teach entrepreneurship law clinics in which our students do transactional work on a wide range of matters, including business formation, contracts...

Foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) research may not be part of your day-to-day work, but having some FCIL resources in your research...

As I've written time and again in these pages, the primary goal of legal writing is to make sure that our point is unmistakably clear to the reader...

This casebook provides an overview of the wide range of legal and ethical issues facing lawyers in practice. As did prior editions, the Seventh...

On April 24, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued its final rule, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of...

We use contractions all the time in our conversations, text messages, and emails: "I'm gonna stop by the store," "She's picking up the food;" "We'll...

The recent special issue of The Political Librarian is viewed as a “Love Letter to Libraries in Our Darkest Hour” by guest editors Allison Jennings...

In an earlier post on this blog I wrote about the Access to Information Crisis precipitated by the current Administration’s removal or altering of...

We use contractions all the time in our conversations, text messages, and emails: "I'm gonna stop by the store," "She's picking up the food;" "We'll...