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French Supreme court ruling in the Lafarge case: the private international law side of transnational criminal litigations

Conflict of Laws

Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher at Sciences Po Law School) In the Lafarge case (Cass. The Lafarge case highlights the stakes of transnational criminal law and its interplay with private international law. Interactions between criminal jurisdiction and conflict of laws.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

In a unanimous ruling, Chief Justice Earl Warren called bans on interracial marriage “odious to a free people.”. After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., In June, the court ruled in R.G. & 29, 1941 – Nov.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

While it is possible that members could find a trial judge to rule in their favor, these lawsuits should fail on appeal, if they get that far. Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law.

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.” In Brandenburg v.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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