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Commentary Democratizing the Legal Fight to Reclaim Our Elections
Democratizing the Legal Fight to Reclaim Our Elections
Kip Wainscott
April 14, 2017 12:33:08 am

Guest Columnist Kip Wainscott, Head of Legal & External Relations at CrowdJustice, discusses the fight against gerrymandering, and the value of digital organizing tools to empower movements and make them more accessible... Across the country, lawyers and voting rights advocates...

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Commentary Serving the National Interest? Tribal Rights and Federal Obligations from Dakota Access to Keystone XL
Serving the National Interest? Tribal Rights and Federal Obligations from Dakota Access to Keystone XL
Monte Mills
April 12, 2017 01:53:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Professor Monte Mills of the University of Montana's Alexander Blewett III School of Law discusses the Dakota Accesss and Keystone XL's joint impact on tribal treaty rights ... On March 23, Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. , the...

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Commentary Resistance, Resilience and Reconciliation: Indigenous Human Rights to Environmental Protection in a Fossil Fuel Frenzy
Resistance, Resilience and Reconciliation: Indigenous Human Rights to Environmental Protection in a Fossil Fuel Frenzy
James M. Grijalva
April 11, 2017 03:43:29 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist James M. Grijalva discusses the recent controversy concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline...As spring emerged on the northern plains in late March, news broke of unrelated but congenerous developments in the long running sagas of two oil pipelines...

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Commentary Deportation as a Crime Against Humanity
Deportation as a Crime Against Humanity
Professor L. Ali Khan | Washburn U. School of Law
April 8, 2017 12:08:44 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Ali Khan discusses the potential deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, and international documents' and treaties' prohibition on state actions like deportation...Threats of deportations are evolving into a global phenomenon as nativism,...

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Commentary The Hollowness of the Arguments of the FCC and FTC Chairmen Regarding Internet Consumer Privacy
The Hollowness of the Arguments of the FCC and FTC Chairmen Regarding Internet Consumer Privacy
Andreas Kuersten
April 6, 2017 09:54:06 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Andreas Kuersten discusses the flawed reasoning of recent legislation that allows Internet Service Providers to sell customers' personal information without their consent ... Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai and Chairman of the Federal...

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Commentary The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
Professor William G. Ross | Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
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 Is Hungary’s approach to the refugee crisis a test of the European Union unity?
Is Hungary’s approach to the refugee crisis a test of the European Union unity?
Bettina Nemeth
April 4, 2017 07:21:35 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Bettina Nemeth, a partner in LexMetis, discusses Hungary's approach to the refugee crisis. . . In June of 2015, the Secretary of Interior Dr. Sándor Pintér, filed a legislative bill in the Hungarian Parliament to overhaul the...

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Commentary The NFL Concussion Lawsuit from the Eyes of the Pittsburgh Lawyer who Originated the Case
The NFL Concussion Lawsuit from the Eyes of the Pittsburgh Lawyer who Originated the Case
Jason Luckasevic
April 3, 2017 05:45:12 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Luckasevic of Goldberg, Percy & White discusses his firsthand account of the fight with the National Football League (NFL) regarding the neurocognitive disease, CTE ... Like so many other young boys, I dreamt that someday I...

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Commentary The Execution Methods Crisis
The Execution Methods Crisis
William Berry
April 3, 2017 12:33:36 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist William W. Berry III of the University of Mississippi School of Law discusses the constitutional questions and unclear future of the death penalty ... The State of Mississippi legislature has recently passed a bill to amend...

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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)
Erika Wilson
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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THIS DAY @ LAW

Vienna riots kill 89+

On July 15, 1927, a riot erupted in Vienna over the acquittal of three conservative paramilitary members accused of firing on a group of socialists, killing war veteran Matthias Csmarits and 8-year-old Josef Grössing. The riots resulted in the burning of Vienna's Palace of Justice, which is the seat of the country's Supreme Court, as well at least 89 deaths. Learn more from the city of Vienna.

Federal Housing Act passed

On July 15, 1949, Congress passed the Federal Housing Act to fund slum clearance and low-rent public housing projects. Learn more about the history of federal housing policy.

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On July 15, 2002, a court in Pakistan sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three accomplices to death for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Read selected stories by Daniel Pearl from the The Wall Street Journal.

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