The Best Law Schools For Public Service (2023)
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The law schools that are helping graduates fight for justice in America. The post The Best Law Schools For Public Service (2023) appeared first on Above the Law.
Call for Paper: Private International Law and Business Compliance in Asia Pacific
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 14, 2023
This national conference will be held on 21 February 2024 at The University of Sydney Law School in Australia. The event will take place at the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia, on February 21, 2024 in a hybrid format (in-person or online presentation).
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Did the Frontier Warp American Justice?
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Tonry , an American criminologist and the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. . Historians have observed that life on the frontier generated a skepticism towards government authority and a predilection for self-reliance and independent thinking.
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Double jeopardy clause bars Georgia from retrying man acquitted by reason of insanity
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Share So what would you expect if a state supreme court wrote an opinion directly inconsistent with “perhaps the most fundamental rule” of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in the area, an opinion that would get a failing grade in any law school course on criminal law?
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Can Police Unions Be a Force for Reform?
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
That would be a “mistake,” writes the paper’s author, Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. A critique of police unions that isn’t coupled with a deeper critique of (police) governance would do little to shift the balance of power,” he concluded.
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Forensic Testimony Distorted by ‘Implicit’ Racial Bias: Paper
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Far from an objective and equalizing tool, forensic testimony perpetuates the “presumption of guilt” for people of color involved in the criminal legal system, argue the authors of a forthcoming Criminal Law Bulletin article. Puracal and Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Aliza B.
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Conference Report: Global Law and Sustainable Development; Medellín, Colombia. 26-27 April, 2023
Conflict of Laws
JULY 21, 2023
Consultores, Edinburgh Law School, the Centre for C ontemporary Latin American Studies of the University of Edinburgh (CCLAS), the Law School of University of Los Andes, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.
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EU dispatch: Greek neo-Nazi party appeal prompts bar association probe as lawyer makes Nazi salutes in court
JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .
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From Data to User Interactions: Legal Issues Facing the Metaverse
The Fashion Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
While it all seems very exciting, it is worth asking: who or what governs the metaverse? Do the intricacies of land law apply here? For example, will real-world legislation that governs trespassers on private land apply in the metaverse? What are some of the key areas that, at this stage, are legally murky?
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A Guide to Common Paralegal Studies Classes
How To Become A Paralegal
APRIL 30, 2018
This may also be called a civil law class. In this class, you’re going to learn the basics of the civil law system. You’ll learn about civil law terms as well as how the civil court runs and how both of these differ from the criminal system. It could even be a government agency. Criminal Law.
Top 7 Skills Lawyers Need During the Pandemic
SimplyLawJobs
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
If you are in a law profession, or are studying to become a lawyer, I have formulated 7 important skills that you should have during, and after this pandemic. An In-Depth Knowledge of Government Pandemic Laws. Firstly, current laws and regulations have never been changing so quickly. The UK’s Best Law Schools.
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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse
The Crime Report
APRIL 11, 2022
And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. But for those who wish to reduce harm to people who use drugs now, not just in a hypothetical future, where drugs are no longer subject to criminal law, working with the police is of paramount importance.
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5 Ways COVID-19 Will Transform Law Firms
SimplyLawJobs
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
local government, property, family or criminal law. The UK’s Best Law Schools. by DebbieH | Nov 19, 2020 | Careers Advice If you’re in the United Kingdom, and looking to get in the field of law, then look no further! « Older Entries.
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Four Vital Steps You Need to Take After A Car Accident
SimplyLawJobs
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
local government, property, family or criminal law. The UK’s Best Law Schools. by DebbieH | Nov 19, 2020 | Careers Advice If you’re in the United Kingdom, and looking to get in the field of law, then look no further! « Older Entries.
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Does a Crackdown on Right-Wing Domestic Terror Threaten Everyone’s Civil Liberties?
The Crime Report
JULY 19, 2021
Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
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Turley Testifies on the Foreign Agents Registration Act
JonathanTurley
APRIL 5, 2022
We largely agree on areas of possible reforms, including the potential dangers of registration laws like FARA for free speech and association. Government Affairs Manager, Project On Government Oversight. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Here is the panel: Mr. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette. Mr. Nick Robinson.
French Supreme court ruling in the Lafarge case: the private international law side of transnational criminal litigations
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
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 ‘Hard Tradeoffs’ of Shrinking America’s Prisons
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Policymakers must therefore accept some of the “hard tradeoffs” of decarceration strategies if they are shown to contribute to a long-term improvement in the health and wellbeing of communities most affected by mass incarceration, writes Duke University Law Professor Ben Grunwald. To read the full paper, click here.
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ABA Midyear Meeting 2019
LegalTalkNetwork
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
We also learned more about the ABA’s actions in immigration, the government shutdown, and changes to their website. American Bar Association President Bob Carlson joins hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek to discuss his tenure as president as well as ABA initiatives in the government shutdown, immigration, membership outreach, and much more.
UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office
JonathanTurley
MARCH 20, 2021
The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. First is SBA By-Law 11.2
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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 19 – Matt Thiese
ALPS
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
And Chris is a great podcast host, he’s also an integral part of the Institute for Well-Being in Law, which is who is bringing you this podcast series. He’s our vice president of governance and I have the great privilege of being the board president of the Institute. And I know a bunch of lawyers. Or is it compounded?
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2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention
LegalTalkNetwork
JULY 11, 2017
2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention: Internal Government Communication with KeyNote Speaker Justice Labarga. 2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention: Criminal Law Update. This last year saw a lot of changes in criminal law through court cases. Professor Brian Fitzpatrick (professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School).
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Can Biden Resurrect the Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’?
The Crime Report
AUGUST 3, 2021
government is settled by a deposit into the U.S. and Smith detail how the DOJ maintained a list of government-approved nonprofit beneficiaries, many of them left-leaning. directs The Heritage Foundation’s project to counter abuse of the criminal law, particularly at the federal level. and Smith write. Larkin, Jr.
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JURIST law student staffers launch worldwide law student petition supporting Myanmar law students defending democracy
JURIST
MARCH 29, 2021
JURIST law student staffers have drafted and launched a petition calling on law students worldwide to support Myanmar law students defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law following the February 1 military coup that led to the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2023
” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”
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Pandemic Surveillance and Racial Bias
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic changing the narrative, many tech companies and governments have used the health crisis to incorporate even more sophisticated surveillance methods. Christian Powell Sundquist is a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law where he teaches Evidence, Criminal Law and Racial Justice courses.
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Neurotechnologically Augmented Lawyers? Billable Units of Attention? New Study Sees Threats and Opportunities for Neurotechnology and the Law
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2022
We need law reform bodies, policy makers and academics to be scrutinizing these technological advances rather than waiting for problems to emerge. “One might ask which bit of conduct constitutes the actus reus (criminal act) where a person injures another by controlling a drone by thought alone.” Legal doctrine.
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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., The lead plaintiffs in three landmark civil rights cases. Drew Saunders Days III.
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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” state once they are released by the federal government.
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What Europe Can Teach Us About Ending Mass Incarceration
The Crime Report
AUGUST 24, 2021
A new paper by Alessandro Corda, a law professor at Queen’s University Belfast, finds that comparative criminal justice study was once commonplace, especially before America split from its European cousins to engage in mass incarceration. solidify its place as an exporter of law and policy. He writes from Philadelphia.
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How About Hunter? Justice Department Adds FARA Charge to Menendez Prosecution
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 14, 2023
The government alleges that the couple agreed to have Menendez “use his power and authority to facilitate such sales and financing to Egypt.” In addition to other benefits, the government alleges that Hana promised to put Nadine on the payroll of his company in a “low-or-no-show job.” Government officials or agencies.
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Legal Blow: Hunter’s Defense Hammered by Discovery of Cocaine on Gun Pouch
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 18, 2024
The government could argue that it should be able to use the testing as circumstantial evidence to rebut the claim or even impeach Hunter if he takes the stand (which seems unlikely). The most pressing problem is not the government portraying Hunter as Tony Montana from “Scarface,” it’s Hunter himself.
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Twitter’s Trust Bust: New Documents Show How “Trust” Executives Misled Congress and the Public
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Some of us have been raising concerns over Twitter’s massive censorship system for years, including what I called the emergence of a “ shadow state ” where corporations carry out censorship the Constitution bars the government from doing. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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Garland’s Leaky Ship: the Justice Continues an All-Too-Familiar Pattern of Demanding Secrecy While Leaking Information
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 25, 2022
The judge, however, will be able to read an array of the same details at breakfast in newspaper accounts leaked by the government. It is an all-too-familiar pattern for some of us who have litigated national-security cases against the government. It also recounted specific meetings and individuals involved in past discussions.
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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York
JonathanTurley
MARCH 18, 2024
However, the recent decision of Special Counsel Robert Hur not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden has undermined even that case. Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. John Hoeven’s office in Fargo. Likewise, this week, former U.S. and Maurice C.
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“Picking Quarrels And Provoking Trouble”: China Sentences Journalist Who Reported On Covid-19 To Four Years in Prison
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 28, 2020
.” According to a The New York Times report, the sentence is meant to silence any others who would share information on the failures and responsibilities of the Chinese government for spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Notably, the Chinese continue to scrub any discussion of its role in social media.
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Lock Him Up! Ranking Democrat Suggests Possible Criminal Charges Against Journalist Matt Taibbi
JonathanTurley
APRIL 22, 2023
Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent call for a criminal investigation of journalist Matt Taibbi for perjury by the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The allegation is completely meritless but Rep. But this is not about the added “A.”
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Before Joe, James and Hunter, There Was Great-Great-Grandpa Moses
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Fittingly, Robinette was a government contractor. They told Lincoln that he was a political ally who was “ardent, and Influential … in opposing Traitors and their schemes to destroy the Government.” (It Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. and Maurice C.
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All The President’s Men: Biden’s Use of Lawyers Raises Additional Concerns Over the Handling Classified Material
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 16, 2023
While it seems a fairly pricey moving crew, Biden could argue a trove of documents might require a judgment on where they should be sent and whether they belong to Biden, the Penn Biden Center or the government. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022
LawSites
JANUARY 17, 2022
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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022
LawSites
JANUARY 17, 2022
Target customer: Small and medium law firms, nonprofit immigration legal departments and law school clinics. Our customers consist of nonprofit legal departments, small and medium law firms, local government agencies, and law school clinics. Pricing: Subscription. Our 2022 target is $1M ARR.
“We’re Here to Help”: The Justice Department Makes The Case. for a Congressional Investigation
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 18, 2023
Here is the column: Ronald Reagan once joked that “the most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.
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“The Clinton Standard”: How Hillary Clinton’s False Victimization Claims Reveal a Core Truth
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
While calling for limits on free speech over “disinformation,” Hillary has no qualms about falsely denying what published government reports detail. “As Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. There’s even a ‘Clinton Standard.’
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The Seven-Percent Solution: How Hunter Biden Allies are Turning to Addiction as a Last Line of Defense
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland has already protected both Joe and Hunter Biden by refusing to appoint a special counsel despite the obvious need for such an appointment under the governing rules. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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