(updated below)Yochai Benkler and I invite members of the academic legal community to join us in signing the following statement, asking the Administration either publicly to justify, or end, the humiliation and mistreatment of Private Bradley Manning, the suspected whistleblower who is said to have leaked classified government documents to Wikileaks.For background, you can read this editorial in today’s New York Times, The Abuse of Private Manning and get more details from Soldier in Leaks… [read post]

  Kevin Russell of SCOTUSblog and Gene Sloan of USA Today also cover the Court’s decision in the case. [read post]

Sloane (Boston Univ. - Law), Proportionality and Asymmetric Warfare: Lessons from the Gaza ConflictFebruary 12: Tom Ginsburg (Univ. of Chicago - Law), Constitutional Convergence in Human Rights? [read post]

Jeffrey Kindler From the Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce John Dingell and Bart Stupak Chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (PDF 42.8 KB) Letter Announces an Investigation Into the Use of Celebrity Endorsements of Prescription Medications in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising01/08/2008 Letter to DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman and OMB Director Jim Nussle From 20 Senators (PDF 727 KB) Letter Urges the President to Include Funding for Electric Vehicle… [read post]

The other trial locations are: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York University of Chicago, Chicago Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Brigham and Women's University, Boston Many of the sites already have begun studying the use of chemotherapy prior to surgery and radiation. [read post]