U.S. Supreme Court Can a city make it a crime for unhoused people to sleep in public if there are no other places for them to go? On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on this issue in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, a case of enormous interest to…
Today, the digital world is literally at our fingertips in our everyday lives to live, research, and explore. Higher education is at the forefront of a digital transformation on all fronts. Not only does your educational institution play a vital role in preparing students for tomorrow’s workforce, but today’s students also are a digitally savvy…
29 April 2024 Metalegal Advocates To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Introduction The intricate interplay between civil and criminal law often poses complex legal questions, especially when the same transaction is subject to both civil and criminal; proceedings. The recent judgment of…
Image from Shutterstock. The legal professional lacks diversity. In other news, the sun is hot, law school is expensive and junk food is bad for you. Not to be facetious, but the lack of diversity when it comes to race, gender, sexuality, disability and social class within the legal profession is nothing new. However, the…
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Contract management. Compliance updates. Discovery responses. Intellectual property portfolio management. These rote, often-time-consuming tasks can all be part of an in-house counsel’s day-to-day schedule. The problem? Many can devolve into costly time sinks for a legal department’s salaried talent. While generative artificial intelligence has the potential to take away some of this lower-level work, it’s…
Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. No one wants this meeting. Guilty or innocent, no student wants to be accused of cheating. For the instructor, leveling accusations, even in the presence of stone-cold…
On April 16, Canada’s federal government (the Government) released its 2024 budget (the Budget). As part of the Government’s ongoing efforts to establish a modern digital payments system for Canada, the Budget included additional details on the establishment of a consumer-driven/open banking framework (the Framework). What you need to know In a previous bulletin,…
If you remember the early days of memeworthy viral videos, you may remember Kai, a free-spirited hitchhiker who saved a woman on the streets from a another man’s violent attack. The woman was in danger, “so I f- – -ing ran up behind him with a hatchet. Smash, smash, smash!” said the man, whose real…
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. And even as university protests dominate the news cycle these days, battles over freedom…