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Commentary INDIA: The Indianization of Hollywood
INDIA: The Indianization of Hollywood
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 22, 2007 07:32:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: If you've seen Mission Impossible 2 you remember Tom Cruise hanging from the cliff by one arm. Chances are you've never seen the Telugu-language version of the same film, where a fat,...

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Commentary Might President Musharraf do what Mahathir did?
Might President Musharraf do what Mahathir did?
JURIST Commentator
June 22, 2007 01:49:00 am

Ali Khan : "Pakistan's Supreme Court is most likely to declare that the Executive order to suspend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry violates Articles 175(3) and 209(5) of the Constitution. If the Chief Justice is reinstated, the...

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Commentary Independence for Kosovo?
Independence for Kosovo?
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 16, 2007 09:39:00 pm

Anthony D'Amato : "Russia is the only Western power that champions Serbia's territorial claim over Kosovo. All other nations want independence for the former Serbian province. As I argued in a previous editorial for JURIST on...

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Commentary Pakistan’s opportunity for judicial independence
Pakistan’s opportunity for judicial independence
JURIST Commentator
June 14, 2007 11:46:00 pm

Ali Khan : "The suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry provides a historic constitutional opportunity for the Pakistan Supreme Court to assert judicial independence. The preamble to the Constitution conceives Pakistan's legal order as a...

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Commentary INDIA: An Affirmative Action Micro-War
INDIA: An Affirmative Action Micro-War
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 14, 2007 08:05:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Outbursts of communal violence are common in India. There are Maoist insurgents in the jungles. There are 23 different separatist militias in the eastern hill states. And as I reported in prior weeks,...

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Commentary INDIA: A Lawyer's Life in Bombay
INDIA: A Lawyer's Life in Bombay
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 13, 2007 06:32:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Settling in Mumbai after having spent my first quarter century in the U.S., I have quickly developed a new personal pricing index. What I mean is, a $4 lunch is now a rather...

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Commentary The Missing Civil Rights Murders: Justice Delayed in Mississippi
The Missing Civil Rights Murders: Justice Delayed in Mississippi
Jeremiah Lee
June 11, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Burnham of Northeastern University School of Law says the trial of alleged Klansman James Seale, accused of kidnapping and then drowning two young men in southwest Mississippi in May 1964, highlights both Mississippi's historical role in...

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Commentary KOSOVO: Serb Property Rights
KOSOVO: Serb Property Rights
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 10, 2007 04:57:00 pm

Eric Sutton, Pitt Law '09, files from Prishtina:When discussing independence, the property rights of Serbian internally-displaced people are an understated cause of conflict between Kosovo and Serbia. As the war raged on, many Serbians understandably fled north to escape the...

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Commentary Pakistan president’s flawed opinion
Pakistan president’s flawed opinion
JURIST Commentator
June 8, 2007 05:07:00 pm

Ali Khan : "The Pakistan Supreme Court has asked the government lawyers to disclose the procedure under which the President has sent the reference against the Chief Justice to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The Court...

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Commentary An Empty Chair at The Hague: Trying Charles Taylor
An Empty Chair at The Hague: Trying Charles Taylor
Jeremiah Lee
June 8, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that despite the absence of former Liberian president and indicted war criminal Charles Taylor from the opening...

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