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Commentary Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 27, 2010 04:22:37 pm

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that Arizona's new immigration legislation - requiring law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them...

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Commentary UKRAINE: A Legal System in Development
UKRAINE: A Legal System in Development
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 18, 2008 01:26:00 pm

Carrie Cecil, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev:Ukraine is a democracy still in its infancy. Independence from the former Soviet Union was declared in 1991, and the Constitution was adopted in 1996. After declaring independence, Ukraine struggled to decide whether...

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Commentary ETHIOPIA: Economic Growth from a Lawyer's Perspective
ETHIOPIA: Economic Growth from a Lawyer's Perspective
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 11, 2008 09:30:00 am

JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, from Addis Ababa...The Economics of Ethiopian Growth — from a legal professional's perspectiveDo you have an addiction? Do you even know you have an addiction? As American lawyers, we're addicted to easy and...

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Commentary GREECE: Same-sex Marriage
GREECE: Same-sex Marriage
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 5, 2008 09:01:00 am

Elisa Mari, Pitt Law '10, files from Athens:Tuesday morning at 7:30 am, Tasos Aliferis, the Mayor of Tilos - a small Greek island in the eastern Aegean - formally married two homosexual couples. The first couple to get married at...

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Commentary UKRAINE: Lax Enforcement of Disability Laws
UKRAINE: Lax Enforcement of Disability Laws
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 3, 2008 09:10:00 am

Carrie Cecil, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev:I've been in Kiev for a little over a week, and every day something new in the landscape amuses or intrigues me, ranging from the incredible amount of cranes all over the city...

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Commentary UKRAINE: Land Use Deregulation in Kiev
UKRAINE: Land Use Deregulation in Kiev
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 2, 2008 11:08:00 am

Aleksandra (Sasha) Williams, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev:The last five years have dramatically changed the appearance of Kiev, the fabled "Cradle of the Slavs". Always admired for its green parks and gardens, its sensible city structure, and its historical...

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Commentary GREECE: The 'Macedonia ' Issue
GREECE: The 'Macedonia ' Issue
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 30, 2008 10:59:00 am

Elisa Mari, Pitt Law '10, files from Athens:A huge public outcry erupted in Greece in March when NATO expanded its membership, the reason being that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) wanted to join the alliance under the name...

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Commentary UKRAINE: Electing a Mayor in Kiev
UKRAINE: Electing a Mayor in Kiev
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 26, 2008 01:00:00 pm

Aleksandra (Sasha) Williams, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev:Until yesterday any American voter disgruntled by the current presidential election process could find comfort in realizing that at least there are several candidates to pick from. For example, compared to Russian...

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Commentary UKRAINE: Joining the WTO
UKRAINE: Joining the WTO
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 21, 2008 11:45:00 am

Aleksandra (Sasha) Williams, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev:On May 16, 2008, Ukraine became the 152nd country member of the World Trade Organization. Although the general Kiev population seemed rather unimpressed by this event, especially in light of the impending...

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Commentary Pakistan: when and how will the ousted judges be restored?
Pakistan: when and how will the ousted judges be restored?
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 3, 2008 10:20:00 pm

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "The Dubai deliberations are over. In a Friday press conference, Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) announced that a Resolution restoring Pakistan's ousted judges shall be tabled before the National Assembly on May...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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