Israel

She's not a soldier but still wants to help out.

Please stop contributing to the cycle of dehumanization.

Offer support to your Jewish friends and colleagues. Make your voices heard.

The Israeli Supreme Court declared that in future cases, no parental status should be recognized for parents of children by surrogacy without a genetic connection to the child or children.

Israel has made positive steps forward when it comes to equality and family formation, but the remaining obstacles are significant.

* Kanye West is facing a lawsuit for reportedly failing to pay individuals who worked on one of his performances. If true, “how could you be so heartless?” [OK Magazine]

* Lawyers representing Stephen Bannon in his criminal case moved to withdraw from the representations after Bannon seemed to suggest beheading Dr. Anthony Fauci and others. [Hill]

* A South Florida lawyer tragically died of a heart attack after collapsing during a court hearing held through Zoom. [Daily Business Review]

* President Trump is making little headway in his post-election lawsuits. [New York Times]

* A man who is accused of threatening the Attorney General of Israel claims that autocorrect is to blame. This is a creative defense. [Haaretz]

With inheritance comes an obligation to act with decency and to ensure that all of our siblings are provided for and treated with respect and protection.

The state possess an inherent power to encourage commerce, but how far can that power be exerted over the moral values of consumers?

Its government acts in a paternalistic manner toward citizens looking to grow their families through assisted reproductive technology.

This area of the law is still quickly evolving in many sharply disparate directions throughout the world.

Hundreds of companies announced support for employees to participate in a mass strike against a discriminatory law.

Cross your fingers that the latest anti-LGBTQ funding bill is just an anomalous blip and that our new Justice surprises us all.

Israel’s culture of innovation is borne out yearly in the form of patents filed in the U.S. and worldwide.

Researchers here in the U.S. are eager to run trials with high quality Israeli cannabis strains they cannot get anywhere else.

Mazel tov, Professor!

The situation regarding surrogacy rights for LGBT individuals in Israel continues to look bleak.

The Trump administration will now have at least one "superior legal mind."

In a landmark decision last month, an Israeli court ruled in favor of a couple who wanted to use sperm from their deceased son to conceive a child that they would raise.

* Jason Greenblatt, an NYU Law grad, is Donald Trump’s chief Israel advisor; so what if he is a real estate lawyer and has no foreign policy experience? Trump has no political experience, and now he’s the GOP standard bearer. [Politico]

* The Paul, Weiss investigation into Roger Ailes has allegedly grown in scope. [Law and More]

* Apparently you can be suspended from legal practice for sexting — well, if the sexts are unwanted and sent to a client. [Legal Profession Blog]

* A look at the Supreme Court’s historic disregard for black lives. [Huffington Post]

* An eight-member Court is really putting a crimp in SCOTUS’s style. [Empirical SCOTUS]

Oh joy, there is an update in the case of the incredibly rude Harvard Law student.