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Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits by Lesley Rosenthal (John Wiley & Sons 2012) As I embarked on writing Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, well-meaning and concerned folks cited at least three reasons why no one had written such a book before, and (implicitly) why I shouldn’t try: it’s too [...]
Archive for the ‘Human rights’ Category
December 31st, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Good news, Higher education, Human rights, Law Notes, Management, Music, NonProfits, Organizing, Philanthropy, Religion and Politics, Think Tanks, Uncategorized
October 30th, 2011
Category: Built Environment, Human rights, Immigration, Personal moment, public health, Unions and organizing
125 years old, still young and still hot. I love her. I love where she stands, I love her crown of radiant wisdom and her torch and her book of laws, I love Miss Lazarus’ poem, I love that she’s an excellent sculpture on her own terms. I love that you can buy bronze paperweights [...]
September 27th, 2011
Pamela Geller is an idiot and a bigot. And like all such, she has a clear First Amendment right to express her ideas in the New York subway.
May 29th, 2011
[Addition 8:40pm May 29: Gershom Gorenberg writes that he just received word from a military spokesman that the permit has been granted. It was the right decision, made more likely by good people paying attention.] One joy made possible by the internet is the relationship you can form with a distant friend or colleagues you [...]
April 11th, 2011
A couple of my students approached me today with what they thought was a rather disturbing discussion in their first year Constitutional Law class (I teach Property to the same group). The class was discussing Korematsu v. United States, the infamous Supreme Court case from 1944, which upheld the internment of Japanese-American citizens. Nothing so [...]
March 28th, 2011
Category: Genocide, Human rights
My close friend and colleague David Paltiel sends this important missive from public health colleagues who have worked in Cote d’Ivoire on HIV efforts. They have direct contacts in country who can provide further information for those who would like to help. Friends & Colleagues, We are writing to enlist your help in spreading the [...]
December 23rd, 2010
We have met Dr. Kissinger, and he is us.
June 10th, 2009
Category: Human rights, Immigration
Palau has agreed to take in the Uighurs — and has demonstrated just about every other nation’s hypocrisy and cowardice.
