Search Results for: 2014-11-17
Looking into Affirmative Action through Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Fangxing Li, University of Pittsburgh
UN rights group expresses concern about excessive detention in Brazil
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Wednesday expressed concern about excessive detention and lack of legal assistance in Brazil, after a ten day visit to the country. The group found that...
Google's new privacy policy , which took affect Thursday, is in violation of European law according to the EU's Justice Commissioner Vice-President Viviane Reding . The new policy allows data collection from one Google service to...
JURIST Assistant Editor Kimberly Bennett, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, argues that the Stolen Valor Act is a piece of wartime legislation that is not the least restrictive means of furthering the government's interest and, as...
Prosecuting the Political Crimes of Brazil's Military Dictatorship
JURIST Guest Columnist Caio Abramo, LL.M. candidate at the Graduate School of Law, Economics and Governance at the University of Utrecht, is currently doing preliminary studies in international public law. He discusses Brazil's obligation to prosecute political crimes committed during...