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Home secretary tells officials to look at possible ways to strengthen controls on weapons in wake of Christmas Day arrest A review into crossbow ownership has been ordered by the home secretary just days after a 19-year-old man was arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day allegedly carrying the weapon. The Metropolitan police are investigating a video, which has been linked to the suspect,...

What’s the point? School-based law enforcement is a good mechanism to ensure students, their education remain the focus of public systems. Most parents and educators, we suspect, would agree public schools need to be safe environments set apart from the outside world where educators can teach and students can learn and grow into their full potential. What a wonderful world that would be. The ...

Despite ongoing legal challenges, California’s 2018 gender diversity law has helped propel a record number of women into corporate board seats in the San Diego region and statewide, according to a new study. Women directors at San Diego publicly traded companies rose from 12 percent to 31 percent of total board seats since the law — SB 826 — passed three years ago, said the California Partner...

California's disputed gender diversity law catapults a record number of women into corporate board seats  The Bakersfield Californian

WilmerHale cybersecurity and privacy attorney Kirk J. Nahra discusses several issues for 2022 that will shape any national privacy law. He recommends watching action at the state level, bias and discrimination issues involving the use of big data and algorithms, and the FTC’s enforcement role. Will 2022 be the year for a national privacy law? We are seeing new federal proposals, ongoing negot...

The 1972 Stockholm Conference sowed the seeds for the growth of transnational environmental law, with states negotiating commitments towards a healthy environment, and introducing new concepts such as “ecocide”. The Stockholm Declaration is often referred to as a Magna Carta for environmental protection, but while it may have been progressive and innovative at the time, it made no explicit me...

A digital currency crackdown is coming—that’s the message that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler deliver throughout 2021. Additionally, the federal reserve board and several legislators weighed in on the blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital asset space. When it came to regulation in 2021, we saw government officials begin to set the stage for what looks like a ne...

Hermès appears to have made good on its claims about non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) that were marketed as MetaBirkins without its authorization. Creator Mason Rothschild revealed in an open letter to Hermès that he posted on his Instagram account on December 22 that he received a cease-and-desist letter from the French luxury goods brand. In a separate open letter to OpenSea, Rothschild confirm...

The purpose of the Cannabis Tax Fund Grant Program (CTFGP) is to disperse grant funds from The Control, Regulate, and Tax Adult Use Marijuana Act (AUMA) to local governments and qualified nonprofit organizations for the education, prevention, and enforcement of impaired driving laws pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Section 34019. Description: With the passage of Proposition 64, the AUMA,...

(Image via Getty) Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! What was the second law school founded in the United States, five years after William & Mary School of Law? Hint: Though the school has been defunct since 1833, it counts two U.S. Vice Presidents, 101 congressmen, 28 senators, six cabinet secretaries, three justices of the United States Supreme Court, 14...