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4 Dec 2017, 5:10 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
H.R.4485: To direct the Attorney General to review, revise, and develop law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address missing and murdered Indians, and for other purposes. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
  We just learned of the Duke Center for Firearms Law’s Repository of Historical Gun Laws, “a searchable database of gun laws from the medieval age to 1776 in England and from the colonial era to the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
 On April 22, Georgetown University Law Center will host an event on "Violence against Asian Americans: What Legal History Reveals," featuring Gabriel "Jack" Chin (UC Davis) and Madhavi Sunder (Georgetown Law). [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 2:50 pm by Guest Blogger
  New surveillance technologies are being embraced by the criminal justice system, the military, and intelligence communities, with little attention to the racialized implications of these new extensions of the carceral state. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 3:21 pm by Jon
" These questions are complicated and pressing, and the law of disparate impact does nothing to address them. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 8:27 am by Rick Garnett
Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 12:01 pm by Mark Graber
  Law matters, which is all one can ask of a court. [read post]
30 May 2018, 10:28 am by David Ruiz
In April 2017, EFF joined a coalition led by Asian Americans Advancing Justice to oppose CBP’s plan to ask visa applicants from China about their social media identifiers. [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented, writing that the law creates a “large” risk of disenfranchisement. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 3:51 pm by Adam Schwartz
Our allies on this letter are the ACLU (Santa Clara Valley Chapter), Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Coalition for Justice and Accountability, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (San Francisco Bay Area Office), the Center for Employment Training, the Japanese American Citizens League (San Jose, Sequoia, and Silicon Valley Chapters), the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, and The… [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 9:36 am
What a coincidence to read this morning about a lawsuit centering on Ethan Hawke’s role not as a rebellious Russian rich boy but as a rebellious American slacker named Troy Dyer in the 1994 Gen-X classic “Reality Bites.” In 2005, a real-life guy named Troy Dyer, a financial planner in Wisconsin, sued the writers and producers claiming that they libeled him by giving Hawke’s character the same name. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 8:34 am by NCC Staff
Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School; Jennifer Taub, Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law; and Joshua Geltzer, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center Laurence Tribe, Jennifer Taub, and Joshua Geltzer write that Donald Trump is launching a multi-front assault on voting and the election’s legitimacy, and suggest several ways to combat… [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 11:05 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
But as thousands of Americans struggle to make ends meet and turn to the government for help, drug testing companies are reaping the benefits of their misfortune. [read post]
21 Jan 2023, 7:53 am by John Floyd
  Speaking directly to the Illinois SAFE-T Act, the Center for American Progress cites the ways that such reforms enhance rather than undermine public safety as opponents of bail reform claim:   “The causes of the recent rise in violent crime are ambiguous and complex, leaving the door open for those who seek easy answers or to place the blame on criminal legal reform policies. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 9:45 am
Nationwide, according to Northwestern University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions, 45.9 percent of documented wrongful capital convictions flow from false informant testimony, making "snitches the leading cause of wrongful convictions in U.S. capital cases. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 9:29 pm by RegBlog
Hollway, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Law School Recently, law enforcement and criminal justice agencies across the country have begun to embrace a new type of event review, which posits that when our law enforcement system generates undesirable events, we should review those events first to understand why events unfolded the way they did, rather than reviewing them to understand who is… [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 5:34 am by David Bernstein
 Georgetown Law Center's Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a speaker with a long history of antisemitic statements, and declined to cancel his invitation when this history was publicized. [read post]
14 May 2012, 4:02 pm by AstuteLegalVideos.com
“Today’s ruling provides an opportunity for victims of torture at Abu Ghraib to tell their stories to an American court and to obtain justice from the private military contractors who played such a prominent role in one of the most shocking episodes of abuse in recent American history,” said CCR Legal Director, Baher Azmy, who co-argued the case. [read post]