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Adam Rome. Credit: The Great Courses. BUFFALO, N.Y. — April 26, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, and University at Buffalo professor Adam Rome is offering his take on Olmsted’s life, legacy and innovations in a forthcoming Audible Original course. Olmsted is best known for his work as a 19th-century landscape architect. But the audio course, set to debut...

The beginning of 2022 saw a flurry of activity in privacy. In the United States, most of this has been at the state level, where legislatures all around the country have been debating comprehensive privacy proposals. As these legislative sessions wind to a close, Utah (thus far) is the only state to join California, Colorado and Virginia as one of the few jurisdictions in the country with a c...

Avid readers of this column (yes, there are some) may recall that in our January 2020 column we discussed the then-upcoming implementation of the Secure (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) Act which affected anyone who owns an IRA and would die after Jan. 1, 2020. Wait a minute, that affects almost all of us — and it’s trillions of dollars — that are going to be taxed afte...

Local and national Republican committees were given permission by the Fifth Circuit to intervene in suits seeking to enjoin enforcement of new Texas voting laws because their interests are different than the state’s. Texas SB 1 is designed to amend the state’s election code provisions dealing with voter registration, voting by mail, poll watchers, and other areas of election security. Its con...

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and several of his colleagues to introduce legislation that would reauthorize the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. This law, which went into effect in 2016, provides the president with the authority to leverage economic sanctions against any party responsible for “gross violations of internation...

The Justice Department continues to prosecute Russian-related crimes. Since the Ukraine Crisis, DOJ has steadily been announcing criminal charges against defendants connected to Russia. In its most recent action, DOJ unsealed two indictments charging four Russian nationals who were employed by the Russian government with two separate computer hacking conspiracies that targeted the global ener...

One year after the landmark emissions reduction roadmap law was signed and with eight years to go until its first major decennial checkpoint, the Environmental League of Massachusetts on Monday unveiled a new website that will track the state’s progress toward the so-called climate law’s commitments, including becoming net-zero by 2050. Signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on March 26, 2021, the law ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Pasco County on March 28, 2022. WATCH LIVE COVERAGE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday will sign the controversial "Parental Rights In Education" measure — dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics — into law. The governor is speaking at Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, about an hour north of Tampa. Joining DeSantis are Florida Education Comm...

Anvay Tewari In her first public statement on the issue, Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken said that some of the 120 students who gathered to protest a conservative speaker two weeks ago engaged in “unacceptable” behavior but did not violate Yale’s free speech policy. In a Monday morning email to the Law School community, Gerken addressed a March 10 student protest in which more than 100 la...

In two cases in which RCFP filed briefs, the court ordered the release of records concerning law enforcement officers’ misconduct. “[A]ccess to public records fosters transparency, accountability, and candor,” New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote in one of two opinions he authored in favor of releasing law enforcement misconduct records. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) In back-to-b...