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Byline: EVAN CHARNEY It is Opening Day for Major League Baseball and this will be the first season with the new rule implementations. These rules have been added to improve [...]

Byline: Elisabeth Charney The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of 20 schools across the country with food-delivering robots rolling around its campus. Formally called Starships, the six-wheelers with an orange [...]

Byline: Elisabeth Charney The University of Wisconsin Law School opted out of this year's U.S. News and World Report survey on Jan. 26 due to its prioritization of ranking metrics [...]

Universities open for in-person instruction during the 2020-21 academic year implemented a range of prevention strategies to limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, including physical distancing, [...]

On March 19, 2021, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). Many kindergarten through grade 12 (K--12) schools offering in-person learning have adopted [...]

The San Luis Obispo County Superior Court recently granted a petition to ban almost all outdoor cannabis advertising on more than 4,000 miles of California highways. The case was brought [...]

In Phase Two of the decision United Food and Commercial Workers International Union v. MedReleaf Corp., the Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal (the tribunal) confirmed that sections 2(1) [...]

Whistleblowing - a corporate governance and regulatory tool The widespread introduction of legislation protecting the actions of 'whistleblowers', and increased public expectations of global corporate accountability, mean that businesses need [...]

Byline: Noah Charney Living in Slovenia, you often hear about the benefits of the wonderfully compact yet diverse terrain of the country. Stretching over a territory about the size of [...]

We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department's use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the [...]

Byline: Noah Charney The confusion began when I inherited my father's original Eames lounge chair, the sort that has cushioned psychiatrists such as him for decades. He'd bought it with [...]

Byline: Noah Charney What do look for in buying reproductions: - Original furniture should come from licensed dealers, and there is usually only one or two licensed dealers per country. [...]

MedReleaf Corp., a licensed medical marijuana producer, successfully defended an unfair labour practice complaint filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (the UFCW or Union) at the [...]

Byline: Noah Charney Living in Slovenia, you often hear about the benefits of the wonderfully compact yet diverse terrain of the country. Stretching over a territory about the size of [...]

Byline: Noah Charney I never fantasized about having a baby. I thought that I would like to have one, at some point, but I wasn't preoccupied with the idea. But [...]

Byline: Noah Charney In Washington, separation of church and state isn't just a principle of governance, it's an architectural and geographic rule as well. Pierre L'Enfant envisioned a national church [...]

[Professor Charney presented this paper at the Open Forum of the American Psychoanalytic Society conference on January 15, 2010. Eds.] Of course, Shylock is only a character in Shakespeare's play, [...]

This is undoubtedly Shakespeare's best known and most often quoted speech, so that it seems foolhardy to try to say anything new about it. Yet I think this best known [...]

https://sites-nortonrosefulbright.vuturevx.com/49/4087/landing-pages/a-global-guide-to-whistleblowing-laws.asp The widespread introduction of legislation protecting the actions of 'whistleblowers', and increased public expectations of global corporate accountability, mean that businesses need to adopt a proactive approach to managing [...]

Laws protecting whistleblowers have been in place for over two decades in some countries, however it is only recently that effective laws and procedures have begun to be studied comparatively [...]

Byline: CHAD CHARNEY Spiny lobster miniseason: East Coast divers are bringing in the monsters in fair numbers, especially North and Central Florida. From Jupiter south most divers come close or [...]

ANY presidential hopeful introducing himself to a German-speaking crowd might be tempted to draw on the eloquence of Shakespeare, the wisdom of Lincoln, the idealism of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the [...]

LAST week, when the principal pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, met in Washington, two of the many speakers were the presumptive nominees for president -- John McCain, […]

IMMIGRATION REFORM: Idea that enforcing the law isn't feasible is incorrect If we should not enforce our immigration laws because it is not 'feasible' to deport 12 million illegal immigrants, [...]

Rivalries have long crisscrossed the Middle East in dizzying complexity over national ambitions, ideology, religion and oil wealth. Nations or groups that agreed on one point often quarreled on another. […]

The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., a civil rights and antiwar campaigner who sought to inspire and encourage an idealistic and rebellious generation of college students in the 1960's from […]

Afghans are set to elect a National Assembly and 34 provincial councils today after a campaign plagued by violence and intimidation. Last week, Human Rights Watch said in a report […]

HERE'S a challenge: Try to read the mind of Adolf Hitler. During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services did that, using the psychological insights available at the time […]

PREDICTING what the assassination of a political leader will accomplish can be tricky. Results are unpredictable. Think of Lincoln, Kennedy, Gandhi. The world changed, but how? In the Middle East […]

On Saturday, the eastern border of the European Union will move farther east as 10 countries, from Poland to Cyprus, are welcomed as members. A major new incentive to travel […]

Corporations face many challenges in today's global economy. Norton Rose Fulbright presents four key issues they face including employment, securing and protecting your intellectual property, establishing a global privacy policy, [...]

On Wednesday, President Bush meets in Washington with President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, a critical ally in efforts to root out Qaeda remnants along the Afghan-Pakistani border. It is also […]

Child killed: Responses to 'Murder charged in child's 'torture,' ' Page One, Aug. 18 Incompetence led to tragedy Kudos to Juvenile Court Judge Gregory Adams for his thoughtful handling of [...]

WHAT'S the difference between a settlement and an outpost? Why does it matter? Ever since Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, Israelis […]

Pedestrian safety: Enforce laws consistently I read, with alarm, the most recent death toll from our own version of domestic terrorism --- car terrorism. In a recent week, we had [...]

Gwinnett school police: A May 19 editorial about parents David and Terry Knight being grilled following the theft of a standardized test prompted an outpouring of anger. Concern for children [...]

The teaching profession: Fear often outweighs courage and concern I read Rosetta Boyd's article from the perspective of a parent and a taxpayer and thoroughly enjoyed her comments ('Against the [...]

Public service: Community efforts succeed Thanks to Cynthia Tucker for her column on the reluctance to public service since Sept. 11 ('Bush's call for service clashes with apathy,' @issue, Feb. [...]

Farm subsidies assure bountiful food supply I was very disheartened when I read the editorial calling a new farm bill 'extortion' ('Passing Farm Security Act would extend extortion,' @issue, Jan. [...]

New driving laws punish good teens As a parent of two teenagers, I am appalled at the new driving law for teen drivers. The new driving restrictions for teens only [...]

Reach across aisle in appointments Well, Dubya, looks like you're going to squeak into the presidency. You've got to be wondering where's the mandate in all these split votes. You'll [...]

IF there has been one universal image of the impact of modern war on the innocent since 1914, it is that of the refugee in flight. The faces peer out […]

MARK TWAIN may well have said that history doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. Or maybe someone else did. In any event, in early 1868, while awaiting publication of 'The Innocents […]