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The Boston City Council Gets It Wrong On Gaza
I’ve lived in the City of Boston for more than twenty years. I love Boston. I do not always love Boston’s City Council. That’s especially true today. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, whose prior antisemitic comments I am not going to detail here, offered a really unfortunate resolution on the Gaza war, and the City Council,……
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The Scholars’ Choice
The opinions of legal scholars are not that important to the day-to-day work of most American lawyers and judges. In 2007, Judge Jacobs told a crowd of law professors, “I haven’t opened up a law review in years. No one speaks of them. No one relies on them.” And in 2011, Chief Justice Roberts said:……
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Case of the Day: Defense for Children International v. Biden
The case of the day is Defense for Children International—Palestine v. Biden (N.D. Cal. 2024). Something I’ve seen very often in courtrooms, and read in a lot of decisions, is a tendency for many judges, when they are about to rule against a party, to express a lot of sympathy for the equities on the……
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The ICJ’s Decision
The ICJ’s decision today on provisional measures in the case South Africa brought against Israel under the Genocide Convention is not the end of the world. It requires Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of” Article II of the Genocide Convention, and to……
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A Sad Day In Israel
Readers, you all have read about the Hamas surprise attack on Israel on Saturday and probably seen the distressing videos and images of atrocities including the murder, kidnapping, and assault of civilians and the celebrations that followed. Saturday was the saddest day for the Jewish people that I can remember in my lifetime. I think……