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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Bulgaria's law on secret surveillance and how data is held violates the European Convention of Human Rights. The court said on January 11 that its justices had ruled unanimously on the case, brought to the court by two Bulgarian lawyers along with two rights organizations, that Bulgaria failed to meet the rights convention with its Special Sur...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, enacted on November 15, 2021, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (the “BIL”), adds many important provisions regarding the development of the United States’ infrastructure network. These provisions are sorely overdue and are welcomed by many. But lesser attention has been given to several provisions related to the taxation of cryptocurr...

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked The High Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked cannot keep preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from receiving citizenship after the controversial Citizenship Law expired. The coalition failed to pass a bill that would have extended the law in July. Since then, Shaked has used her ministry to block family reunification as i...

Law professor Jerome Organ commented for ABA Journal on the increased number of students attending law school and availability of legal jobs. From the article: There are concerns that the demand to attend law school won’t match the supply of jobs. For 2019 and 2020 graduates, the employment rate is 80%, says Jerome Organ, a professor at Minnesota’s University of St. Thomas School of Law. To k...

The Patriots are heading into Saturday’s Wild Card grudge match against the Buffalo Bills having lost three of their last four games — including one to the Bills — while their opponent rides a four-game winning streak and AFC East title birth into the playoffs. But the postseason is a different beast. Everyone starts 0-0. Whatever happened in the regular season is out the window. Teams with m...

This core thesis, which the Thomson Reuters Institute has been highlighting for a while now, is critical to win in the über-competitive war for talent. Now, more than ever, there is a need for scaling trust-building into the day-to-day efforts of managing talent well, and we consulted with Julie Henson, chief client officer at the law firm Taft to understand how it’s done. Developing trust th...

An employee parking only sign stock photo from Rosamar/Shutterstock. This article was first published in Streetsblog. A first-of-its-kind municipal law now requires many employers in Washington, DC to provide cash to workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits — and experts say it could serve as a model for other American cities that want to de-incentivize car commuting. Af...

HOUSTON — Several Houston-area law enforcement agencies are set to announce additional resources for Crime Stoppers of Houston today in an effort to combat increasing homicide rates. The announcement is scheduled to be made at 11 a.m. KHOU 11 will stream the announcement live on our website, YouTube and Facebook pages. According to Crime Stoppers, 2021 saw a 70% increase in murders in Harris ...

On December 22, 2021, the New York State Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) issued the final rules (the “Rules”) implementing the New York State Sick Leave Law (“NYSSLL”), which has been in effect since September 30, 2020. In addition to providing clarity on various critical issues by promulgating the Rules, the NYDOL also responded to public comments it received after the Rules were initially pro...

Fritz Maya Kainz, Shoko Uehara, Marwa El-Shaarawy and Mizuo Kimiya are students in the Law School’s LL.M. program. Photos by Julia Davis Some students at the University of Virginia School of Law have illustrious legal careers before they even start their classes here. This year, 43 students from 18 countries are in the Graduate Studies Program to work toward their master of laws, or LL.M. deg...