Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. It was also nice to see the Nonprofit Law Blog listed as #19 on FeedSpot’s 100 Non Profit Blogs and Websites and #1 on Justia’s of all-time Most Popular Nonprofit Law Blawgs. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: 10 Major Legal Threats to U.S. Civil Society (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law) The Donor Revolt Comes to Annual Giving: Israel, Gaza, and Campus Unrest (Drew Lindsay, Chronicle of… [read post]

Robert P. George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University; Nootbaar Honorary Distinguished Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law School; Google Scholar), Why Christians Must Do More Than Merely Reject Antisemitism: I hope it goes without saying to a Christian audience that we, as followers of Jesus, must reject antisemitism and,... [read post]

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FTC announced that it will hold a 45-minute webinar on May 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET to provide an overview of its final rule banning noncompete agreements.  As we discussed in our update last week, the FTC banned the use of noncompete provisions in employment agreements (and clauses that act like noncompetes by limiting employee mobility) except in connection with the sale of a… [read post]

The American Society of International Law will hold its 2024 ASIL Abroad meeting on June 5-6 at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference will consist of dual parallel tracks on Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law (Track 1), and International Dispute Resolution and International Economic Law (Track 2). If you plan to be in Europe or nearby in early June and are interested in attending, please contact ILS Director Sara Zucker by May 19. [read post]

The New World Social Innovation Fellows Program supports selected student changemakers – known as Cheng Fellows – advancing progress on a social problem through a project of their design. Through weekly co-curricular programming, coaching, and seed funding (up to $30K), it provides a platform for students to develop and scale efforts while in school and post-graduation. The application is now open and will close on June 3, 2024. [read post]

[An interesting report that helps explain why the messaging, tactics, and methods adopted by campus protestors have been so similar across the country.] The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article explaining how the leaders of campus protests learned some of their strategies and tactics from national organizations and outside activists.  It begins: The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of… [read post]

"I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.' And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer that we're going to start throwing hands. We're not going anywhere, I don't care. They're going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body." The post Patriotic American College Students Pushing Back Against Anti-Israel and Anti-American “Pro-Palestinian” Encampments first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]

A digest of recent analysis of national security and rights related news and developments at Just Security. E.U. Investigation of Meta/Facebook What U.S. Policymakers can Learn from the European Union’s Probe of Meta by Paul M. Barrett (@AuthorPMBarrett) Twitter/X Reinstatement of Nick Fuentes Key January 6th Instigator, Nick Fuentes, Reinstatement on Twitter/X: The Implications by Tom Joscelyn and Jacob Glick May 4, 2024 Click Srebrenica Genocide Refuting Srebrenica Genocide Denial Yet Again, as UN Debates Draft Resolution by Menachem Z. Rosensaft The Kremlin’s Hand: How… [read post]

For the Balkinization symposium on David Pozen, The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2024).Jennifer D. Oliva The United States has long waged a “costly, punitive, racist, and ineffective” drug war “that has been a failure on all counts.” Over the last half-century, Americans have sacrificed trillions of dollars to prop up a prohibitionist drug law and policy framework that has ensured ever-escalating and record-setting drug-related mortality and enshrined the United States as the world champion mass incarcerator. Columbia… [read post]

Posted by James J. Fredricks and Bora P. Rawcliffe, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on Sunday, May 5, 2024 Editor's Note: James J. Fredricks is a Partner and Bora P. Rawcliffe is Counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. This post is based on their Skadden memorandum. On April 15, 2024, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Criminal Division unveiled a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals that offers non-prosecution agreements (NPAs) to individuals who voluntarily disclose “original… [read post]