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EXPERT ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS

Legislative Overreach on Gun Rights

October 15, 2016 12:13:15 pm

JURIST contributing editor Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law discusses new gun laws enacted in Missouri and proposed in Pennsylvania and how they reflect an insatiable appetite for enacting pro-gun legislation even when gun rights are well secured under...

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Why the Supreme Court is not a Key Issue in the Presidential Election—and Why it Should Be

Professor William G. Ross | Cumberland School of Law at Samford University

October 10, 2016 05:18:51 pm

JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of the Cumberland School of Law discusses the implications that the choice to vote for either presidential candidate in this upcoming election will have in the Supreme Court... Since this year's presidential election is...

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Referendum in Republika Srpska Held Despite the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fahira Brodlija

October 9, 2016 09:16:37 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the recent referendum and court decisions regarding Republic Srpska... The specific constitutional framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) and the governmental structure which...

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Newby and Necessity

Michael T. Morley

October 2, 2016 10:32:44 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael T. Morley of Barry University School of Law discusses the recent Newby case in regard to the necessity of proof-of-citizenship required by Alabama, Georgia and Kansas ... Citizenship, a time-honored concept that traces back to the...

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Why Proof of Citizenship Won't Improve Election Integrity

Michael Gilbert

October 2, 2016 02:01:10 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on the Newby case, in reaction to Alabama, Kansas and Georgia's requirement on proof of citizenship before...

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The Dakota Access Pipeline: A Legal Environmental Justice Perspective

Dayna Jones

September 29, 2016 09:55:36 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Dayna Jones, a law student at Lewis and Clark Law School, discusses the intersection of law and environmental justice concerning the the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and the Dakota Access Pipeline... The largest multi-tribal gathering of indigenous...

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Australia Spends Billions Causing Untold Damage to Refugees

Anna Talbot and Greg Barns

September 28, 2016 05:00:29 pm

JURIST Guest Columnists Greg Barns of RMIT University Graduate School of Business and Law and Anna Talbot of Australian Lawyers Alliance discuss the need for improved policies regarding refugees in Australia... On Tuesday Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, stood in...

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What's the Matter with Kansas: The Voting Edition

September 25, 2016 08:01:51 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of Stetson University College of Law discusses how Kansas, Georgia and Alabama pushed forward with efforts to require additional proof of citizenship by new registrants, despite the Supreme Court decision on invalidating state's requirements on...

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Cicero, International Law, and the Oil in Iraq

Laurie Blank

September 23, 2016 01:06:44 am

JURIST 2016 Law of Armed Conflict Contributing Editor Laurie R. Blank of the Emory University School of Law discusses recent political comments concerning application of law during times of war...The apparent deliberate bombing of a UN relief convoy bringing lifesaving...

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A Federal Expungement Law Should Be a Priority in Any Future Criminal Justice Reform Effort

Nicholas Wooldridge

September 22, 2016 11:52:10 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas M. Wooldridge of LV Criminal Defense discusses the need for federal expungement legislation... This article is currently under review Introduction Do ex-offenders who successfully complete their sentence deserve a chance to wipe the slate clean? 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.