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News UN rights office concerned over slow progress in Sri Lanka
UN rights office concerned over slow progress in Sri Lanka
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
March 3, 2017 01:45:51 pm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Friday that Sri Lanka has made slow progress towards establishing transitional justice. According to the report, while various ad hoc bodies of justice have...

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News Pakistan cabinet approves historic reforms to tribal regions
Pakistan cabinet approves historic reforms to tribal regions
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
March 3, 2017 12:52:52 pm

The Pakistani Cabinet on Thursday approved a five-year plan yesterday to bring political reforms to the tribal areas of the country. The cabinet accepted the recommendations of the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Reforms Committee to...

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News Supreme Court rules in Virginia redistricting case
Supreme Court rules in Virginia redistricting case
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
March 1, 2017 03:51:13 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Bethune Hill et al v. Virginia State Board of Education at al that Virginia's redistricting scheme must be examined for racial bias. The case revolved around around...

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News Turkish court opens mass trial of coup suspects
Turkish court opens mass trial of coup suspects
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
March 1, 2017 02:57:15 pm

Around 330 individuals were put on trial Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup in Turkey last July . The charges against the suspects range from murder to attempts to remove the government and...

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News Denmark man indicted for burning Quran
Denmark man indicted for burning Quran
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 24, 2017 02:31:08 pm

Prosecutors in North Jutland, Denmark , pressed blasphemy charges against a man on Wednesday for posting a video in which he burned a Koran. On Thursday the Danish Prosecution Service issued a formal indictment [press...

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News Bosnia asks Hague court to review ruling clearing Serbia of genocide
Bosnia asks Hague court to review ruling clearing Serbia of genocide
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 24, 2017 01:16:28 pm

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) formally asked the International Court of Justice Thursday to review a 2007 ruling clearing Serbia of genocide during their 1990 civil war. President Izetbegovic of the President...

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News Former Hong Kong leader sentenced for corruption
Former Hong Kong leader sentenced for corruption
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 22, 2017 03:46:22 pm

A Hong Kong Court on Wednesday sentenced Donald Tsang, the former Chief Executive from 2005 to 2012, to 20 months in prison for his failure to disclose personal conflicts of interest when his cabinet was...

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News Russia highest court releases political activist
Russia highest court releases political activist
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 22, 2017 02:35:38 pm

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation annulled the 2.5 year prison sentence of Ildar Dadin, who was the first person to be convicted under a relatively new anti-protest law. Dadin was imprisoned in 2015 under...

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News Oklahoma judge orders EPA head to release e-mails
Oklahoma judge orders EPA head to release e-mails
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 17, 2017 01:27:24 pm

An Oklahoma County District Judge on Thursday ordered Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt , the recently confirmed head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , to release thousands of e-mails between his office * and fossil fuel...

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News UN SG welcomes Gambia’s decision to stay in ICC
UN SG welcomes Gambia’s decision to stay in ICC
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
February 17, 2017 12:45:01 pm

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday welcomed The Gambia's decision to remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . According to a statement Guterres issued through a spokesperson, he "welcomes that The Gambia will remain a State Party...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Western Allies approve new Germany constitution

On May 12, 1949, the Western allied powers, the United Kingdom, United States, and France, approved the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) as the legal foundation for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The document served as the constitution of West Germany during the Cold War and remains the governing law for the unified Germany today. Learn more about the legal framework of the German government from the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany).

Justice Harry A. Blackmun confirmed

On May 12, 1970, the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Harry A. Blackmun to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Blackmun died in 1999, and was remembered on JURIST by several of his former law clerks. The Harry A. Blackmun Papers were released in 2004 by the Library of Congress.

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