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Balancing Pressures in Governing the European Economy
Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated at the continental level. It all began on a cold, …
INSTITUTIONAL EXTENSIONS OF A REMARKABLE SUPREME COURT DECISION
On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia] to the United States”. The Court removed…
The dynamics of international orders
In the current moment we are experiencing a profound shift in the international order. Russia militarily attacked Ukraine, a sovereign state, and the emerging attempts at peace negotiations most loudly promote the argument that territories should be distr…
A Perspective from Rural America: Lawyers and the Viability of Rural Law Practice
Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors, and—the subject of this book—lawyers. …
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors
Can editing an encyclopedia of stage directors be anything but an impossible task? Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara) and I were invited to consider such an undertaking just under a decade ago; Simon had just published an encyclopedia of stage actors and a…
Leading the way for Generation Alpha
The incessant rate at which the world is changing is causing greater levels stress, especially for youth. Shared global challenges such as climate change, threats of disease, political unrest, the rise of artificial intelligence, or extinctions of animal …
Negative Freedoms in Twentieth-Century Europe
How can individual freedom be historicised in the context of twentieth-century Europe? When setting out to answer this question I found myself grappling with the following problem: on the one hand, contemporaries invested the notion of individual freedom …
Robogovt: how should we regulate automated government decision-making?
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because of the difficulties they face in challenging automa…
How does the law protect our thoughts? Exploring global protections for the right to freedom of thought
The right to freedom of thought was a neglected right until recently. It was so overlooked that although article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights both state that everyo…
What innovations changed the human world for ever?
We are well aware how dramatically and rapidly a single innovation can change our lives. The smartphone has rapidly altered communication, access to information, navigation, photography and more. We know how transformative has been the arrival of the pers…
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Emerging Research on the Role of Bees in Agroecosystems
Since last year, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems has published two additional papers related to bees and pollinator health and are celebrating World Bee Day with an update to their World Bee Day Collection.
Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend&rd…
Race and Inequality in US Politics, Part 2
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the natio…
JFM Rapids: The Editors’ Insights 2025
JFM Rapids is a well-established section in JFM that continues to provide a highly visible venue for short, high-quality, articles addressing timely research challenges of broad interest. The Rapids editors have selected the most interesting recent articl…
When Scientists and Engineers Need to Learn to Program but Don’t Want To
Nearly every scientist or engineer today needs to learn to program, but very few want to learn to program. Scientists and engineers code to live; they don’t live to code.…
On the Performance of Highly Aggressive Inter Compressor Ducts
A major research focus of the Institute of Propulsion Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is increasing engine compressor efficiency. In this context, the intermediate compressor duct (ICD), which connects the low-pressure compressor (LPC) wit…
The Next Phase of Advances in Archaeological Practice: From the Incoming Editor
I remember when Volume 1, Issue 1 of Advances in Archaeological Practice (AAP) was published in 2013. I was a graduate student at the time, undertaking dissertation research on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in the archaeological data collection…
Artificial Intelligence on Campus
How instructors are responding to the rise in AI Artificial intelligence (AI), while not a new topic, has risen in popularity since the development of software like ChatGPT and image generators that create visuals from phrases such as ‘purple dog…
Hollywood’s “difficult” women
The “difficult” woman is a popular trope. This paradigm is particularly pervasive in Hollywood. At a time when the studio system expected actresses to be agreeable, quiet, and deferential, several Golden Age icons were saddled with the label b…
Race and Inequality in US Politics, Part 1
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the natio…
