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10 Apr 2022, 6:49 pm
It overhauls several 1975 laws from the era of former Cuban President Fidel Castro. * * * The new code would legalize same sex marriage and civil unions, allow such couples to adopt children, double down on women's rights, and promote equal sharing of domestic responsibilities. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 6:30 am
In this, Fishkin and Forbath make a major contribution to a like-minded cohort of liberal-left constitutional scholars -- Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, Larry Kramer, and others -- who have written against the legal academy’s grain by focusing on “the constitution outside the courts. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 7:54 pm
(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer Fra Angelico From Fresco Crucifixion with Saints 1441-1442)Accountability and remedy have remained in the cross hairs of international organizations since the endorsement of the U.N. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 10:21 am
Larry Cata Backer, professor of law and international affairs and W. [read post]
9 May 2017, 4:46 pm
” The list counts officials who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations and includes Judge Laurence Silberman, Jamie Gorelick (now the personal lawyer to Ivanka Trump), Larry Thompson, Michael Mukasey, Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, and Donald Ayer. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 6:08 pm
Form and Function in International Human Rights Instruments - Part 2 Flora S February 11, 2018 This is the second part of a commentary I published on February 7, as a follow-up to a commentary on the Draft Guidelines on Human Rights and the Environment co-authored with Larry Catà Backer. [read post]
6 May 2020, 6:30 am
Larry Kramer had developed this conception of “popular constitutionalism” in his influential The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, but Leonard and Cornell expand Kramer’s horizons in two important and fascinating ways.First, The Partisan Republican documents how popular constitutionalism described the practice, even if judicial supremacy or departmentalism (or compact theory) was the official theory of the early republic. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 12:34 pm
” The Trump administration, he warned, would “not stand down” in the face of Chinese aggression and had “adopted a new approach to China” to counter Beijing’s efforts. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 5:00 am
The defendant himself stayed quiet, speaking only to waive his right to be present for jury selection, as he had apparently come down with a bout of food poisoning. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 11:11 am
The Senate intelligence committee is reportedly considering summoning Zuckerberg, Google CEO Larry Page and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for testimony on their data agreements with Chinese tech companies. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 6:12 am
You have hard working staff who deserve better than go down with a ship sinking in the eyes of the public. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 1:47 pm
The other is that it can be used as an epithet to shut down discourse where it is used instrumentally to de legitimate states (for example Israel)].In Nepal, following almost a decade of armed conflict, my Office's efforts included, deployment of both short- and long-term strategies. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 10:51 am
I realize also that it can be frustrating when journalists like me boil down, sometimes to the point of oversimplification or elision, complex and nuanced legal and historical points. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 9:14 am
On November 15, 2012, a FINRA Arbitration Panel in Southfield, Michigan, handed down the third arbitration award against CCO Investment Services Corp. relating to fraud in connection with the sale of the Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals Fund, awarding the customer 100% of their losses, plus costs and attorneyandrsquo;s fees. [read post]
16 Sep 2017, 1:56 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)I have started thinking through the issues around social credit generally, and the Chinese Social Credit project. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 6:00 am
And just as most of the important political and policy issues overlap only loosely with the Court’s business, so too is most of what the Court does – even on questions of abortion, sexual orientation, and religion – located well down on the list of what the sophisticated polling data indicate are the public issues that Americans think most important.Coan’s second point is that crisply formulated rules, including those emanating from the courts, can forestall… [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 7:46 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)Since the failure of U.S. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 10:14 am
The fragile peace enjoyed by the region for several years has collapsed in the wake of renewed Turkish efforts to crack down on the PKK. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 12:07 am
When many other cultures and governments have been closing down and locking up data and decision making, Audrey has shown that openness not only works, but it can win against its more authoritarian competition.I'm Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am
Although chairperson races and committee assignments do not merely come down to who raised the most money for the party, it can help members move up the hierarchies of the House if they spread campaign money generously. [read post]
