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VIDEO: Al-Majid update

November 13, 2007 08:26:00 am

Giovanni Di Stefano applauds the US refusal to transfer al-Majid and his co-defendants to Iraqi custody for execution until a Iraqi legal debate on the executions is resolved.Di...

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PHOTO: Smashed door of Lahore High Court bar association office

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

November 12, 2007 01:37:00 pm

Anonymous : "Today, I went to Lahore High Court at around 12 noon. It was all deserted. Hardly any lawyers seen there. Many plain clothed policemen and other military agents were roaming around. I could not...

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EYEWITNESS: Pakistani riot police clash with lawyers at Lahore High Court

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

November 5, 2007 09:31:00 am

A Pakistani law student from the Lahore University of Management Sciences describes the clash between lawyers and riot police at the Lahore High Court Monday: "Today, November 5th, the lawyers of Pakistan were to boycott the courts and protest at...

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PHILIPPINES: Enforcing Environmental Laws

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

August 30, 2007 11:38:00 am

Andrew Wood, Pitt Law '08, files from Manila:The Philippines has a number of laws on the books that are geared towards protecting the environment, but effective enforcement of those laws is another story. This fact is evident in the aquarium...

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INDIA: Troubles with Pharmaceuticals and IPRs

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

August 16, 2007 12:49:00 pm

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:The cruel irony is that the most pressing diseases are the ones that don't make money. Multinational pharmaceutical corporations from the United States and Europe can rake in the profits selling drugs that...

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INDIA: Can Legal Jobs Be Outsourced?

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

August 2, 2007 11:41:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Currently I am a law student. In the future I want to be a lawyer — that is, employed as a lawyer. There are a lot of voices, however, including my school's career...

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KOSOVO: The Push for Independence

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

July 17, 2007 05:29:00 am

Mary E. Gibson, Pitt Law '08, files from Prishtina:Independence for Kosovo is nothing new — independence fervor did not begin in 1998 when conflicts escalated from Slobodan MiloÅ¡eviÄ‡'s ethnic cleansing of Albanians. Rather, it's been fermenting since before the Ottoman...

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PHILIPPINES: Anti-terrorism Law

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

July 14, 2007 04:36:00 am

Andrew Wood, Pitt Law '08, files from Manila:As governments around the world work hard to implement legislation to aid in fighting terrorism, some common effects of such legislation are predictable and even inevitable; it is the nature of any anti-terrorism...

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INDIA: Mumbai's Trains One Year Past the Blasts

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

July 11, 2007 10:16:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:One year ago today, July 11, 2006, a day Indians call 7/11 (or 11/7), seven coordinated blasts within fifteen minutes tore through rail cars on Mumbai's suburban railway killing 187 people. Nineteen suspects...

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INDIA: The Emergence and Acceptance of India's Famous PILs

Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff

July 10, 2007 05:13:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:The directives and writs of PILs and the hearings of PILs in court are regular news in India today. The PIL movement was begun by the Supreme Court in 1978. The '70s were...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class." Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party. The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.