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Myanmar law students resist military coup online and in the streets

JURIST

Young law students in Myanmar are defending democracy online and in public demonstrations as they resist the February 1 military takeover that deposed civilian Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The interviewer is JURIST staffer Khushali Mahajan, a law student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in neighboring India.

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Rick DeMedeiros: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

The Estrin Report

Yes, from high school on, I knew I wanted to be an attorney, but I wasn’t entirely sure in which area I would specialize. However, by the time I graduated from law school, I was already gravitating toward workers’ compensation. Recently, defense counsel was deposing one of my clients, who was at home testifying on Zoom.

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The Nuclear Option: States Could Take Over College Admissions

JonathanTurley

Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who previously called the conservative justices “partisan hacks,” was recently criticized for suggesting that he might be willing to lie about the weight given to race at this school.

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International lawyers coalition condemns erosion of protection for legal advocates in letter to UN rights expert

JURIST

Despite 10 years having passed since his death, his murder trial has ground to a halt, with only a single witness having been deposed in the last two years since its start. Adeela Firdous, Law and Advocacy Officer, Center for Equity Studies, Kashmir. Mirza Saaib Bég, Student, Blavatnik school of Government, University of Oxford, UK.

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Second Circuit Refutes Allegations Involving Law Clerk in Mediaite, Above the Law, and Other Publications

JonathanTurley

She later was accepted at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, a favorite target for ATL ( and Rubino ) and other sites for its conservative leanings. They could be deposed on the basis for their disparaging accounts of Clanton.

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Is the Clock Finally Running out on Hunter Biden?

JonathanTurley

He went to law school after his father became a powerful U.S. Presidents can be called before grand juries or deposed by investigators in other cases; President Clinton, for example, famously was compelled to testify in a legal case during his term. Yet, timing still could be on Hunter’s side.