Lawyer Ted Jonas stands peacefully at a nighttime protest with an EU flag resting on his shoulder

Beaten in Tbilisi, Alarmed by Minneapolis: One Lawyer’s Democratic Warning Signs

Guest Post by Ted Jonas. On April 30, 2024, just before midnight, I was grabbed from the midst of a massive pro-Europe, anti-Russian demonstration in downtown Tbilisi by a phalanx of masked Georgian police, dragged, beaten, and thrown into an unmarked van. After 30 years in the country, the news that “well-known lawyer” Ted Jonas […]

The Irony of Promoting Administrative Justice

Guest post by Howard Fenton In 1996 I traveled to the newly independent Ukraine to talk with Ukrainian judges about American administrative law. The Ohio Supreme Court had contracted with USAID to provide training to the judges across the full range of American law utilizing Ohio judges and law professors. I volunteered to lecture on […]