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Commentary When in Doubt, Sit Them Out: Youth Sports Concussion Awareness
When in Doubt, Sit Them Out: Youth Sports Concussion Awareness
Carrie Clodi
December 21, 2015 12:40:37 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Carrie Clodi of Valparaiso University School of Law Class of 2017 discusses legislation regulating youth and student athlete sport participation after concussion or head injury and the necessity of continued awareness of student athlete safety ... The...

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Commentary Mayors Suggest More Mandatory Minimum Sentences to Curb Gun Violence
Mayors Suggest More Mandatory Minimum Sentences to Curb Gun Violence
Ashley Merritt
December 21, 2015 10:02:21 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Ashley Merritt of the Valparaiso University School of Law discusses the effectiveness of mandatory minimum sentencing laws on deterring gun violence... In response to a disturbing rise in homicides and violent gun crime, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard...

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Commentary Hoosier Hospitality: Ignorance Fuels Need for Hate Crime Laws
Hoosier Hospitality: Ignorance Fuels Need for Hate Crime Laws
Kendra Julian
December 18, 2015 11:17:09 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Kendra Julian of Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2017, discusses the need for states to enact hate crime legislation...We don't like you. Get out. You don't belong. We're superior to you. These phrases all lead...

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Commentary Have Our Fears Engulfed Our Sense of Humanity?
Have Our Fears Engulfed Our Sense of Humanity?
Duke M. Truong
December 17, 2015 01:21:14 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Duke M. Truong of the Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2017, discusses the issues the US is facing in accepting Syrian refugees in fear of terrorist attack... Eighty-one percent of Americans see a major terrorist...

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Commentary Unrivaled Cruelty: The Horror of Incendiary Weapons and Need for Stronger Law
Unrivaled Cruelty: The Horror of Incendiary Weapons and Need for Stronger Law
Bonnie Docherty
December 17, 2015 08:30:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Bonnie Docherty of Human Rights Watch discusses the need to strengthen existing international law on incendiary weapons ... Incendiary weapons inflict almost unrivaled cruelty on their victims. Photos taken after an incendiary weapon attack on a Syrian...

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Commentary When in Doubt, Sit Them Out: NFL Concussions and the Need for Federal Regulation
When in Doubt, Sit Them Out: NFL Concussions and the Need for Federal Regulation
Alyssa Lebron
December 16, 2015 07:23:13 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Alyssa Lebron of St. John's University School of Law Class of 2016 is the seventh author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Lebron discusses the long-term effects...

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Commentary Undue Burdens on Abortion Rights
Undue Burdens on Abortion Rights
Maya Manian
December 15, 2015 04:10:50 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Maya Manian of the University of San Francisco School of Law discusses the debate over abortion laws and how the future of a woman's right to choose resides with the Supreme Court as they are set...

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Commentary Drastic Changes to Requirements for Registration of Foreign Companies in Kenya
Drastic Changes to Requirements for Registration of Foreign Companies in Kenya
James Tugee
December 12, 2015 12:03:55 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist James Tugee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the potential impact of major changes to foreign businesses registering in Kenya... Kenya enacted the Companies Act No. 17 of 2015 on September 11, 2015,...

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Commentary Can Technology Help the Middle Class Close the Justice Gap?
Can Technology Help the Middle Class Close the Justice Gap?
Naree Chan
December 11, 2015 06:58:22 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Naree Chan of Legal Templates LLC discusses how technology can help with disparities in justice...The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. This has major implications for how justice is defined. The rich can afford...

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Commentary Legally Censoring Speech on Vaccines and Autism: A Response
Legally Censoring Speech on Vaccines and Autism: A Response
Mary S. Holland
December 11, 2015 08:52:52 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary S. Holland from the New York University School of Law discusses the legality of censoring speech on vaccines and autism... In a recent guest column, Professors James G. Hodge, Jr. and Doug Campos-Outcalt explore ways...

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South Africa born

On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born. Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

Tulsa race riot began

On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes. Learn more about the Tulsa race riot. A special commission set up by the Oklahoma legislature decades afterward submitted this report [PDF] on the riot in 2001.

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