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Commentary Expanding the UN Security Council: Much Ado
Expanding the UN Security Council: Much Ado
Jeremiah Lee
August 7, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist W. Michael Reisman, McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, says that the current debate over expansion of the UN Security Council is not as critical as many diplomats and activists make it out to...

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Commentary Getting on With It: Pragmatism at Guantanamo
Getting on With It: Pragmatism at Guantanamo
Jeremiah Lee
July 21, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Darryll Jones, former criminal trial attorney for the US Army Judge Advocate General and now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the recent ruling of the US DC Circuit Court...

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Commentary Law, Not War: The British Example in the Face of Terrorism
Law, Not War: The British Example in the Face of Terrorism
Jeremiah Lee
July 15, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ellen O'Connell of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the experienced British, newly challenged in the recent London bombings, have the right idea... The British have shown...

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Commentary Replacing Justice O'Connor: What Would John Adams Do?
Replacing Justice O'Connor: What Would John Adams Do?
Jeremiah Lee
July 6, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Scott Gerber of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law says that the second President of the United States has some good advice on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination process necessitated by the retirement of Justice Sandra...

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Commentary The Irony of a Possible ICC Finding of Genocide in Darfur
The Irony of a Possible ICC Finding of Genocide in Darfur
Jeremiah Lee
June 9, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that an International Criminal Court finding of genocide in Sudan could change negative American attitudes towards the new Hague tribunal... Genocide may yet be found to have occurred...

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Commentary Why the International Criminal Court Needs Darfur (More Than Darfur Needs the ICC)
Why the International Criminal Court Needs Darfur (More Than Darfur Needs the ICC)
Jeremiah Lee
June 3, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Elena Baylis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Darfur may be a dream case for the International Criminal Court, the value of the International Criminal Court for Darfur is yet to be...

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Commentary Non-sense: France's No to the European Constitution
Non-sense: France's No to the European Constitution
Jeremiah Lee
May 31, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a native of Aix-en-Provence who returned to France to vote in its referendum on the European Constitution, says that...

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Commentary Britain and the European Constitution: A Spanner in the Works?
Britain and the European Constitution: A Spanner in the Works?
Jeremiah Lee
May 18, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Dougan, Professor of European Law and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at England's University of Liverpool Law School. says that the UK referendum on the treaty to establish a European Constitution is...

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Commentary The EU Constitution and French Referendum: Law v. Politics
The EU Constitution and French Referendum: Law v. Politics
Jeremiah Lee
May 11, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the proposed European Constitution may be less than it's cracked up to be, and that its possible rejection...

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Commentary Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Poised to Fall Apart
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Poised to Fall Apart
Jeremiah Lee
May 5, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the ostensibly-successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, now under review in a month-long conference at the UN, may be on its last legs... Recognizing "the devastation that would be...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

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