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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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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
Valena Beety
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 ICJ Rejects Bosnia & Herzegovina's Request of the Revision of 2007 Judgment
ICJ Rejects Bosnia & Herzegovina's Request of the Revision of 2007 Judgment
Fahira Brodlija
March 22, 2017 03:28:49 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija, an LLM student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses the recent ICJ response to Bosnia and Herzegovina's request for a revised judgment from its 2007 lawsuit against Serbia regarding the application of...

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Congress passed War Powers Act

On November 7, 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act, overriding President Nixon's veto. Read the War Powers Act and review a summary of Congress and the War Power: Constitutional Anchor or Anachronism?, a seminar held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on October 15, 2001.

UN calls for UK, France and Israel to leave Egypt

On November 7, 1956, the United Nations General Assembly approved Resolution 1001, which called on the United Kingdom, France and Israel to pull all of their military forces out of Egypt. The Resolution came during the Suez Canal crisis, during which Israel invaded Egypt with the support of the U.K. and France, after Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. Read Resolution 1001.

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