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20 Oct 2015, 8:51 am by Andrew Hamm
Last Wednesday, as part of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s lecture series, historian Laura Edwards told a new story of the Reconstruction amendments, one told from the ground up within the contours of daily life in the many and varied locales of the United States in the nineteenth century. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Glyn Moody
(credit: Gage Skidmore) A "Snowden Treaty" designed to counter mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers around the world has been proposed by Edward Snowden, and three of the people most closely associated with his leaks: the documentary film-maker Laura Poitras; David Miranda, who was detained at Heathrow airport, and is the Brazilian coordinator of the campaign to give asylum to Snowden in Brazil; and his partner, the journalist Glenn Greenwald. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  On October 14, 2015, Laura Edwards, the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University, will deliver The Reconstruction of Rights: The Fourteenth Amendment and Popular Conceptions of Governance. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 12:00 pm by Dan Ernst
Duke Today has a lovely on-line feature article, complete with embedded videos, entitled Laura Edwards’ Civil War Stories, prompted by the appearance of Professor Edwards's Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015). [read post]
23 Aug 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
.'s This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (Basic Books) and Akinyele Omowale Umoja's We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (New York University Press).There's also a review of Laura Edward's A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge University Press). [read post]
2 Aug 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"In the third interview from New Books, William Leogrande and Peter Kornbluh discuss their new book, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana (UNC Press).Lastly, after you've read Karen Tani's review of Laura Edwards's A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights you can listen to Edwards discuss the book. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 8:00 am by Quinta Jurecic
Laura Poitras, Citizenfour filmmaker and co-founder of The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, has filed suit against the United States over what she terms "Kafkaesque harassment" on the basis of her interactions with Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 2:38 pm by Joe Mullin
Laura Poitras gained notoriety as the documentary filmmaker behind the 2014 Oscar-winning movie Citizenfour, a film about the time she and Glenn Greenwald spent with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 9:33 am
” Poitras is a professional journalist who won an Academy Award this year for her documentary film “CITIZENFOUR” about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, shared in the 2014 Pulitzer for Public Service for NSA reporting, and is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 4:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The publication launched last year with the short-term goal of “providing a platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 10:08 am
The publication launched last year with the short-term goal of “providing a platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
31 May 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Laura & Marvin Horne’s Story”, video on raisin takings case, features the great Michael McConnell [YouTube, earlier] Actor Edward Gero shines as Antonin Scalia in new stage play The Originalist but script doesn’t really understand originalists or Federalist Society types, thinks John McGinnis [City Journal] McGinnis on the difference between “big”/philosophical cases and normal cases at the Supreme Court [Liberty and Law] Ninth… [read post]
15 May 2015, 10:18 am by Kali Borkoski
Justice Bradley On Wednesday evening, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hosted the second lecture in the 2015 Leon Silverman Lecture Series, which focuses on the Supreme Court and Reconstruction. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence: The German ExperienceApril 2, 2015Speaker: Wolfgang Krieger (University of Marburg)The History of the Fourth AmendmentApril 23, 2015 Speaker: Laura K. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 12:23 pm
. * Human rights and intellectual property: a new research handbookJeremy welcomes The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property, published by his friends at Edward Elgar Publishing. [read post]