European university leaders gathered in Bologna, Italy, nearly 33 years ago to sign the Magna Charta Universitatum, a document asserting fundamental values of autonomy and academic freedom. In the ...

Sunday (June 15) marks the 799th birthday of the Magna Carta (sometimes spelled Magna Charta), which famously limited the powers of the English monarch vis-à-vis his feudal barons. Although often ...

The Magna Charta Observatory calls on Erdoğan “to enable Boğaziçi University and all universities in Turkey to reach their full potential by respecting the spirit of UN agreements and enabling ...

Two years ago Harvard’s dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard’s ...

Law Library Special Collections Rare Book Room Exhibits Exploring Magna Carta This is the first printed edition of Bracton, which had circulated in manuscript for centuries. This edition was printed ...

Signed by President Marcos, the measure aims to strengthen the protection of the rights of workers embarked on ships around the world. The Philippines is the country with the most people employed in ...

Nomos Publishing is among the leading scientific publishers in the German-speaking world in the fields of law, social sciences and the humanities. Since 2002, Nomos has been a part of the Beck-Group, ...

Chang Tso-lin, ontime “King of Bandits,” Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and ...