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BigLaw representatives recently suggested that, to diversify, large firms should seek associates beyond the elite law schools and top-ranked students. This recalls the scene from Casablanca when, after Rick asks why his place is being closed down, Captain Renault states that he is “shocked, shocked to find that there is gambling going on”—as a croupier [...]

“Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.” – Hamlet For an afflicted American nation, it never seems to end. On June 1, 2020, President Donald J. Trump once again openly defiled US Constitutional protections of free speech and assembly, on this occasion by gratuitously violent treatment of law-abiding civilian demonstrators. A week later, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Albert Scherr of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, discusses the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice's new rules regarding torture...For the past four and a half years, the UN Commission on Crime...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Morocco to release five prisoners who were allegedly convicted based on false confessions obtained through torture. Six activists were convicted last week in Casablanca for assaulting and insulting...

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Hu of Duke University School of Law says that the recently enacted state-level immigration laws go against long-held American ideals and cultural values, which were exemplified in the World War II-era film Casablanca...The US Department of...

Thousands of Moroccans engaged in peaceful demonstrations Sunday demanding greater reform in the new constitution expected to be unveiled in June by King Mohammed VI. The protesters, led by the Facebook youth movement Fevrier 20 rejected the...

Eight suspected members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) were sent for trial Thursday by French investigators for their alleged role in the Casablanca terrorist attacks in May 2003. The suspects have been charged...

A Moroccan criminal appeal court Friday acquitted five former Guantanamo Bay detainees of terrorism charges related to the men's connection with Salafia Jihadia and unrelated to their detention at Guantanamo Bay, where three of...

The head of the independent Human Rights Moroccan Center announced plans Monday to appeal a Moroccan court's conviction of three former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of involvement in terrorism. Khaled al Charkaoui expressed surprise...

Morocco state news agency MAP reported Friday that a criminal court in Salé, a twin-city of the capital Rabat, has sentenced three former Guantanamo Bay detainees to prison for their involvement in terror activities....