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Risky Pandemic Speech: Germaneness and Relevance on Academic Listservs

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Risky Pandemic Speech: Germaneness and Relevance on Academic Listservs

Benjamin G. Davis and Marcelo Rosadilla

August 25, 2020 09:00:33 am

After postings on several listservs many of the pieces written here on JURIST and other seemingly relevant information for legal education, one of us was contacted by the listserv administrators of several listservs about the germaneness of the postings to dispute resolution, contracts, or other academic topic areas. Those administrator contacts usually came after someone [...]

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