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Commentary The Crisis in Hong Kong: Can Comparative Law Help?
The Crisis in Hong Kong: Can Comparative Law Help?
Shubhankar Dam
October 22, 2014 09:17:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Shubhankar Dam, of the Singapore Management University, proposes a solution to the underlying issues which caused the ongoing protests in Hong Kong ... Nearly three weeks after they began, Hong Kong's student-led protests show little signs of...

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Commentary The Ongoing Debate: Wiretaps and Background Conversations
The Ongoing Debate: Wiretaps and Background Conversations
Tamara Fisher and Jacquelyn Rembis
October 21, 2014 08:01:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnists Tamara Fisher and Jacquelyn Rembis, both students at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, discuss issues surrounding inadvertently recorded background conversations and the wide disparity of judicial opinions over their admissibility ...Wiretaps are an incredibly powerful tool for...

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Commentary Genetic Testing and the Need for a Federal Regulation
Genetic Testing and the Need for a Federal Regulation
Angie Lin
October 21, 2014 08:00:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Angie Lin, St. John's University School of Law Class of 2015, is the author of the fourth article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Lin discusses inadequate...

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Commentary Ebola, Human Rights and Health Discrimination
Ebola, Human Rights and Health Discrimination
Stefan Kirchner
October 20, 2014 02:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Stefan Kirchner, of the University of Lapland in Finland, discusses the possibility of global discrimination during the ongoing Ebola outbreak ...The current Ebola outbreak has lead to discrimination against those infected with Ebola as well as against...

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Commentary The First Step: Ending the Use of Gay and Trans Panic Defenses
The First Step: Ending the Use of Gay and Trans Panic Defenses
D'Arcy Kemnitz
October 20, 2014 01:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist D'Arcy Kemnitz, Executive Director of the National LGBT Bar Association discusses reasons why the "gay panic" defense should be outlawed...Just over a year ago, barely a dozen states recognized lesbian and gay marriages. Today, following a sea...

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Commentary Recent Arrest May Encourage Judicial Reforms in Africa
Recent Arrest May Encourage Judicial Reforms in Africa
Roland Adjovi
October 18, 2014 02:12:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Adjovi, Assistant Professor at Arcadia University, discusses some of the possible implications of the recent arrest and accusations levied toward Martina Johnson ...Martina Johnson joined the National Patriotic Front of Liberation (NPFL) of Charles G. Taylor...

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Commentary EXTRA: Stand Your Ground Laws and Implicit Bias
EXTRA: Stand Your Ground Laws and Implicit Bias
David Harris
October 16, 2014 03:18:40 pm

The United States Commission on Civil Rights invited Professor David A. Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law to testify at the Commission's hearing on October 17, 2014. The subject of the hearing is Stand Your Ground...

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Commentary Equal Protection Test: Lessons from Judge Posner's Opinion on Equal Marriage
Equal Protection Test: Lessons from Judge Posner's Opinion on Equal Marriage
Amaury Reyes-Torres
October 16, 2014 02:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury Reyes-Torres of Iberoamerican University (UNIBE) in Mexico, discusses Baskin v. Bogan and argues that the opinion presents an alternative approach to the equal protection standard of review for discriminatory acts...The right to equality or the right...

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Commentary Constitutionality of Constitutional Acts in Egypt: Can the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court Extend its Jurisdiction?
Constitutionality of Constitutional Acts in Egypt: Can the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court Extend its Jurisdiction?
Mohamed Abdelaal
October 9, 2014 11:00:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Abdelaal, of the Alexandria University School of Law in Egypt, discusses the complexities of the current state of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court...After the now-ousted President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power in Egypt...

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Commentary Are State Judicial Mandatory Retirement Ages Still Permissible?
Are State Judicial Mandatory Retirement Ages Still Permissible?
Jason Birriel
October 7, 2014 02:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Birriel, St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2015, is the author of the third article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Birriel discusses the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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