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Commentary LEBANON: Women's Citizenship and Nationality Rights
LEBANON: Women's Citizenship and Nationality Rights
JURIST Webmaste
March 24, 2010 01:17:16 pm

Megan McKee, Pitt Law '12, takes a personal perspective on citizenship and women's rights in Lebanon...Sara Burhan Abdullah's recent JURIST Dateline article on women's rights and citizenship in Iraq reminded me of a similar predicament faced by Lebanese women. In...

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Commentary PITTSBURGH: Music, Copyrights, and Free Speech in the Digital Age
PITTSBURGH: Music, Copyrights, and Free Speech in the Digital Age
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March 2, 2010 04:59:30 pm

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a panel on Music, Copyright, and Free Speech as part of the ACLU's Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll series at Carnegie Mellon University...In the past 10 to 15 years, music has gone from...

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Commentary UKRAINE: Models of Constitutional Judicial Review
UKRAINE: Models of Constitutional Judicial Review
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February 15, 2010 06:51:06 pm

Myroslava Savchuk, Pitt Law LLM '10, discusses the differences between judicial review in the United States and her home country of Ukraine...Judicial review refers to a court's power to review the constitutionality of a country's laws and invalidate them when...

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Commentary IRAQ: Citizenship and Women's Rights under the Iraqi Constitution
IRAQ: Citizenship and Women's Rights under the Iraqi Constitution
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January 30, 2010 12:02:48 pm

Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, was an observer to the Iraqi Constitutional Review Committee. She shares her experiences with the issue of inheritance of citizenship and women's rights in her home country of Iraq...Under Saddam...

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Commentary PITTSBURGH: Former ECJ Judge Sir David Edward on Nationalism and the EU
PITTSBURGH: Former ECJ Judge Sir David Edward on Nationalism and the EU
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November 4, 2009 02:16:00 pm

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh...Kristine Long...

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Commentary PITTSBURGH: Sulmasy on National Security Courts
PITTSBURGH: Sulmasy on National Security Courts
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October 20, 2009 12:36:30 pm

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a talk on a proposed national security court system given by US Coast Guard Captain Glenn Sulmasy*, a law professor at the US Coast Guard Academy and a National Security and Human Rights Fellow...

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Commentary Live from Baghdad…
Live from Baghdad…
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October 13, 2007 07:47:00 pm

Giovanni di Stefano provides exclusive video for JURIST from his current trip to Baghdad, including military protection on the bus from Baghdad International Airport to Baghdad Immigration Control,...

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