JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Advocate General Gerard Hogan of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concluded in an opinion delivered Thursday that Malta’s judicial appointment process does not contravene EU law. Your gift of $50, $100, $200 or $500 will help JURIST to keep its legal news and commentary free and accessible to a worldwide public. DONATE NOW.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2021

The US Supreme Court Thursday held that Social Security disability claimants are not bound by the issue-exhaustion requirement in administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings. Writing for a 9-0 court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor concluded that although the Social Security claimants in Carr v.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2021

In a press release , Trudeau stated the he “know[s] Jamal, with his exceptional legal and academic experience and dedication to serving others, will be a valuable asset to our country’s highest court.” He appeared before the Supreme Court 35 times on civil, constitutional, criminal, and regulatory issues.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Some are directly run and ordered to do things that are not very legal or fair and some are pressured to. What has happened is horrible to the institution of independent lawyers.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. Originally, the law allowed four reasons for reopening a case: forgery of documents, false statements by a witness, judicial negligence or valid confessions post-trial.

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LexForti

JANUARY 29, 2022

This post has been authored by Mridul Sinha, who is associated to Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The legal philosophers ponder over the most debated distinction between Is and Ought. It is outside the realm of law which is not achieved will become Is Law of the then time. Mridul Sinha.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 1, 2024

The most recent example is the interview of University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade by Rachel Maddow. McQuade captures the theoretical divide over free speech, though she is clearly voicing a view that is increasingly popular among law professors.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. Law Clerk – This term is commonly used in Ontario and denotes someone who does a mix of administrative and substantive tasks, but is usually less substantive than that of a paralegal.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2022

Under § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive attacks limited to certain claims indicating “factual innocence” or relying on “constitutional law decisions made retroactive” by the Supreme Court. ” Jones v.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2021

It also prevents judges from referring questions of law to the ECJ and creates a body that rules on judges’ independence without regard to EU law. He claimed the interpretation of articles 1 and 19 of the Treaty on European Union are inconsistent with the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 13, 2024

We recently discussed the students who conducted a protest inside the home of Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, law Professor Catherine Fisk. The students, including UC Berkeley law student Malak Afaneh, refused to stop disrupting the dinner as Chemerinsky and Fisk reminded them that this is their home, not a public forum.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

McClain , health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, explain what just happened, and what happens next. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The rules govern app providers and distribution platforms, requiring them to abide by China’s Constitution, laws, and administrative regulations. This also includes a provision against endangering national security, public interests, and the legal rights of individuals and organizations.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Finnish Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee recommended Wednesday against prosecuting Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto for attempting to replace an official.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Cortada’s painting reminds us that Gideon’s petition started a constitutional debate that is still ongoing.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It contains the following contributions: ESSAYS Mareike Schmidt, Kulturalität der Rechtsanwendung und internationale Rechtsvereinheitlichung – Überlegungen am Beispiel des UN-Kaufrechts, 643–671, DOI: [link] Cultural Dimensions in the Application of Law and International Unification of Law – The Example of the CISG. –

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Modern Law Library host Lee Rawles explores the world of dark money campaigns and election chicanery in Wright’s book “The Coyotes of Carthage.” He and Rawles talk about his journey to creative writing, teaching his University of Wisconsin Law School classes remotely, and his plans for a TV series based on his book.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. The secretary remained in the case and defended the challenged law. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the 2003 decision, the Court ruled that the University of Michigan Law School’s race-sensitive admissions program was narrowly tailored because the consideration of race was merely one factor in the decision-making process and individualized consideration was given to each applicant. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2023

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows on constitutional grounds. Putting that concern aside, I have serious free speech concerns over the reach of these laws. Federal district judge Thomas Parker granted an injunction on the ground that the Tennessee law is vague and overly broad.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Danielle Smith, who took office as the new Premier of the western Canadian province of Alberta in October, said Saturday that her government is considering revising the provisions of the proposed provincial Sovereignty Act which would empower the provincial cabinet to unilaterally rewrite laws without legislative approval.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2021

The petition challenges the Bar Council of India’s authority to prescribe a post-enrollment qualification for practising law. Once an advocate has cleared the exam, the Chairman of the Bar Council issues a certificate of practice deeming them fit to practice law in India. Bar Council of India.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2021

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday asked all the Union Territories and State governments to stop the registration of cases under the charge of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, by law enforcement agencies. appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Supreme Court upheld a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully. According to the Court, the law does not run afoul of the First Amendment. The post Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the most high-profile case of the week, the Court addressed the scope of the attorney-client privilege when an attorney provides both legal and non-legal advice. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2023

229–235, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0051 ESSAYS Felix Berner: Implizite Qualifikationsvorgaben im europäischen Kollisionsrecht, pp- 236–263, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0028 Implicit Characterization in European Conflict of Laws. Quite often, European choice-of-law rules themselves require a certain treatment of a characterization problem.

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law graduate in Kabul offers her observations and perspective. From perspective of law, we are in crisis. Living under Taliban law is like living in hell.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 30, 2021

California Constitutional Law — The Casebook , foreword to book by Professor David Carrillo and Judge Danny Chou, foreword by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Racism, Birthers and the Rule of Law in Early California by Judge Michael Stern. The Facts and Law Didn’t Seem to Matter — Until They Did by Gary Simms.

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MARCH 18, 2022

A handful of high-profile cases has sparked a larger public debate about the impact of self-defense laws. According to law professors Guha Krishnamurthi of the University of Oklahoma College of law and Peter Salib of the University of Houston Law Center, this public concern is warranted. Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

Claiming that he was “restoring law and order” in Kazakhstan, President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev announced Friday that he has ordered armed forces to “shoot and kill without warning” to quash an uprising ignited by surging consumer fuel prices. “I Constitutional lawfulness is being restored.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 1, 2021

In the final decision of the Supreme Court before its summer break, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a major ruling striking down the California law requiring the disclosure of donors for charities. The law attacked so-called “dark money” but the Court ruled that the state was curtailing free speech in a 6-3 decision.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 10, 2023

As separate sovereigns pre-existing the Constitution, Indian tribes have the same common-law immunity from suit traditionally enjoyed by sovereign governments—unless and until Congress unequivocally expresses its intent to abrogate that immunity. Younger : The cases centers onthe preservation of legal claims for appeal.

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JURIST

AUGUST 22, 2021

In its analysis, the appellate court affirmed the applicability of the Basic Structure Doctrine in the realm of Kenya’s constitutional law. The court expressed that the said doctrine limits the amendment power set out in Articles 255-257 of the Constitution.

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Above The Law

JUNE 9, 2021

Last night, the New Yorker tweeted out an alarming legal story: Oh my! The article, written by Harvard Law School prof Jeannie Suk Gersen — we’ll get back to why that’s significant in a second — leans into the sad state of […]. That would be problematic.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2023

Written by Zuzanna Nowicka , lawyer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and lecturer at Department of Logic and Legal Argumentation at University of Warsaw In the aftermath of the judgment of the ICJ of 2012 in the case of the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 22, 2021

Supreme Court unanimously held that a tribal police officer has the authority to detain temporarily and to search non-Indian persons traveling on public rights-of-way running through a reservation for potential violations of state or federal law. We believe this statement of law governs here. Facts of the Case.

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LexForti

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Keywords: Judicial Review, Constitutionality of Law, Re-modification of Laws, etc. These Petitions were filed under Article 226 of the Constitution. State of Tamil Nadu, where it was held that, if the language of the statute is clear and precise, then there is no need to read the words of such law into the statute.

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