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Andreas Awarded Salomon Grant to Research History of Smuggling Institute Associate Professor Peter Andreas will research the role of illicit commerce – and the policing of such commerce – in America’s birth, consolidation, growth, and international engagements as a recipient of one of the University’s Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards for 2010. Innovative Global MBA Program to Tap into Watson Knowledge |
Berman on the Emerging One-State Consensus The “two-state solution” long raised as a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has now come to function as “an apologetic myth for the Jewish mainstream… a refusal to confront the concrete situation… and a means to maintain an unjust status quo,” according to Institute Professor Nathaniel Berman. “One-state” is neither a solution nor a dream nor a nightmare: “it is what we have now, have had for almost 43 years, and likely will have for the next several decades,” he writes in Zeek, a Jewish journal of thought and culture. “Everyone who lives in, or is passionate about, Israel,” should consider what kind of state this is and what it should be. Blyth: No Global Sweet Spot for Bank Regulation |
Friday Talk: Free Speech vs. Property Rights Online Take a world tour of the legal minefield of intellectual property on the web, from court actions against Google to your personal digital rights. Attorney Chris Watson, of CMS Cameron McKenna, gives a talk, on "Commercial Rights vs. Communications Rights: Walking the Tightrope," on Friday at noon at the Watson Institute. |