Once, I found myself lost in a maze of towering leather-bound law books, searching for a precedent that felt like finding a needle in a haystack. Those were the days of my legal education, where every new case felt like a treasure hunt in a library from an ancient time. Fast-forward to today, and my…
Donald Trump is at it again. He seems determined to turn the 2024 presidential campaign into another ugly contest about the meaning of race and identity. On Wednesday at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump parried an inquiry about whether he believed that Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI candidate…
Viviane Neves Massaro, a Brazilian woman who worked at Canadian company ApplyBoard from June 2021 to July 2022, posted a video on LinkedIn last month speaking about her experiences working in international education in which she alleged she was not supported by her employers when she complained about the behaviour of her line manager. In…
Shifting global student demand: Asia’s role in diversification, a report jointly written by the student recruitment platform and the global testing company, detailed how traditional and emerging markets have performed between 2019-2023, and how universities in the big four destinations can capitalise. Bangladesh’s numbers grew by 129% between 2019 and 2023 in the US Report…
I thought the sexual abuse complaints against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a Catholic holding a very high position in his church’s hierarchy, were limited to Massachusetts, where a man claimed that McCarrick had abused him at a wedding many years ago. I have written about abuse in Massachusetts and other New England states. Massachusetts has…
Law enforcement officers frequently call on prosecutors for advice. Prosecutors generally see responding to such requests as part of their duties, as the North Carolina Constitution directs that District Attorneys “advise the officers of justice” in their districts. N.C. Const., Art. IV, § 18. But are prosecutors protected by absolute prosecutorial immunity when they give…
We’ve talked a lot about the benefits of AI—but we also understand the risks. Unfortunately, instances of lawyers being sanctioned for relying on AI-generated briefs have taught the profession that AI does not come without complications and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s wisdom. We’ve also seen the courts respond to the rise of…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The next question that our law firm often receives is what to do after deportation from Indonesia. Can one go back to Indonesia after being deported from Indonesia? The simple answer is yes, it is possible for one to…
Nearly two-thirds of Jewish high school families have eliminated colleges and universities from consideration due to rising on-campus antisemitism, according to a new poll commissioned by Hillel International. Adam LehmanEighty-seven percent of those polled said the events of Oct. 7 had an impact on their approach to selecting a college or university for their child,…
Students will have access to HEX’s degree accelerator platform, will make $1,200 scholarships available to the first 100 students to sign up to celebrate its launch. The decision to unveil the program comes as the Albanese administration moved to more than double the student visa fees for students wishing to study in Australia. “In an…