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Commentary Gagging Attorneys: A Critical Look at the ABA "Anti-Discrimination" Rule
Gagging Attorneys: A Critical Look at the ABA "Anti-Discrimination" Rule
Kelly Cullen
July 31, 2017 02:17:38 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Bradley Abramson of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses the new ABA Model Rules and potential first amendment concerns ... The new ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) prohibits attorneys from engaging in "harmful," "derogatory," or "demeaning" speech in any activity...

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Commentary Why "Palestine" Would be a Dangerous Fiction
Why "Palestine" Would be a Dangerous Fiction
Kelly Cullen
July 28, 2017 12:45:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the implications of Palestinian statehood under the rubric of International Law... "The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is...

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Commentary Financial Regulators and Dog Piles
Financial Regulators and Dog Piles
Kelly Cullen
June 29, 2017 11:59:14 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Julie A. Hill of The University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the Financial Choice Act and duplicative enforcement of financial regulations ... After the L.A. Times revealed that Wells Fargo employees opened millions of unauthorized consumer...

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Commentary International Justice is Blind to the Mutilation of Soldiers
International Justice is Blind to the Mutilation of Soldiers
Kelly Cullen
June 13, 2017 03:38:48 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Surya Rajkumar of O.P. Jindal Global University, discusses the prospects of relief for victims of violence in the Kashmir dispute ... On the 1st of May 2017, the mutilated bodies of two personnel of the Indian Border...

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Commentary Iraq after ISIS: Urgent Legal Reforms Needed
Iraq after ISIS: Urgent Legal Reforms Needed
Kelly Cullen
May 16, 2017 08:05:46 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Oday T. Mahmood, an S.J.D. candidate for 2019 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses needed legal and constitutional reforms in Iraq post Islamic State... In 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...

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Commentary Australia's Forcible Deportations of  Unwell Asylum Seekers: Legal Obligations
Australia's Forcible Deportations of Unwell Asylum Seekers: Legal Obligations
Kelly Cullen
May 10, 2017 04:16:46 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Greg Barns, Lecturer in Jurisprudence RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Anna Talbot, Legal and Policy Adviser Australian Lawyers Alliance discuss the human rights of unwell asylum seekers at the refugee facility on Manus Island... On April 30th,...

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Commentary The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
Kelly Cullen
April 5, 2017 11:01:51 am

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law discusses the constitutional legacy of the First World War... American entry into the First World War one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, generated significant constitutional...

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Commentary Kentucky and the Charter School Movement: Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)
Kentucky and the Charter School Movement: Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)
Kelly Cullen
March 29, 2017 03:03:31 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Erika Wilson of University of North Carolina School of Law, discusses the potential perils of Kentucky's new charter school law ... On March 21, 2017, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin signed into law House Bill ("HB") 520, a...

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Commentary Race to Death: A Critical Look at the Death Penalty as Arkansas Executes Eight
Race to Death: A Critical Look at the Death Penalty as Arkansas Executes Eight
Kelly Cullen
March 29, 2017 02:06:35 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Valena Beety of West Virginia University College of Law, discusses the impending Arkansas execution of eight people in ten days ... The state of Arkansas plans to execute eight people across ten days this April. Arkansas...

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Commentary Sleight of Hand in Florida's New Death Penalty: Requiring, But Not Requiring, Jury Unanimity
Sleight of Hand in Florida's New Death Penalty: Requiring, But Not Requiring, Jury Unanimity
Kelly Cullen
March 21, 2017 10:59:09 am

Sleight of Hand in Florida's New Death Penalty: Requiring, But Not Requiring, Jury Unanimity JURIST Guest Columnist Chance Meyer of Shepard Broad College of Law,NOVA Southeastern University, discusses the Florida Supreme Court's recent death penalty decision in Hurst and its...

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Titanic sinking precipitated multiple lawsuits

The Titanic sank early in the morning of April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of 2228 passengers and crewmembers aboard, only 705 survived. The sinking gave rise to a variety of lawsuits against the White Star Line, the Titanic's owners.

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On April 15, 1865, Vice-President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth President of the United States, after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Johnson became the first US President to be impeached, but he was not convicted. Learn more about Andrew Johnson and his impeachment from the US Senate.

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