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Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Small-town Star Trek museum teaches American cultural history, limits of fan fair use in copyright law

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I have the con at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour , Ticonderoga, N.Y., Oct. 2025 (all photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The sl...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Make space for public lands, right to recreate

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Beaver Dam State Park Different people feel differently the pinch of the federal government shutdown in the United States.  (All photos from...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Overheard recently in a Vermont diner ...

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A patron told his dining companion that he was happy that his work gives him a way to help people truly in need. Then,  Background: Autumn, ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Law students test-screen 'actual malice' documentary

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Yesterday, my students in Comparative Law and in Torts got to be test-screen audiences for  American Libel , a new documentary written and p...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Whitman: Failing rule of law in America means, if not civil war, ever more dismal standards of living, dying

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Whitman speaks in Montreal. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Professor James Q. Whitman , Yale Law, just concluded an extraordinary lecture o...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Belgian scholar finds fault on both sides of Atlantic, charts midway course for U.S.-EU data privacy

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KU Leuven Profs. Jan Wouters ,  Evelyne Terryn , and  Peggy Valcke ;  Sylvia Lissens ; me; KU Leuven Prof. Marieke Wyckaert , dissertation c...