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1 Jun 2020, 12:04 pm
The committee will hear testimony from Wendy Weiser, the vice president of the Brennan Center for Justice, and LaShawn Warren, the executive vice president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:08 am
Netanyahu has thrown in his lot with an extreme right-wing coalition that rejects all Palestinian demands for political rights. [read post]
16 May 2011, 2:00 pm
Defending (and not defending) DOMA: The King & Spalding Controversy Presented By NYCLA's LGBT Issues Committee and The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:30-8:00 PM NYCLA Home of Law 14 Vesey Street (between Broadway and Church Street in Lower Manhattan) King & Spalding's initial decision to represent the Congressional Republicans in litigation concerning DOMA was met with a public campaign of… [read post]
4 May 2010, 10:06 am
” Anecdotally, I have heard similar comments from defense counsel in the extraction industry, who state that if they are found liable for aiding and abetting human rights violations, they will simply stop doing business in certain parts of the world, leaving those areas to their brutish competitors. [read post]
25 Feb 2023, 9:22 am
AI Alpha, which autonomously creates, or creates mostly without human direction, should not benefit from the potential fair use defense of AI Beta, which produces a tool designed to aid, but not replace, human creativity. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:00 pm
The right to have legal representation during questioning is also your constitutional right. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 3:08 pm
Here are the SSA's big-time backers:Open Society Policy Center http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-policy-centerAFL-CIO http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/Statement-by-AFL-CIO-President-Richard-Trumka-on-Reducing-Sentences-for-Non-Violent-Drug-OffensesACLU https://www.aclu.org/smarter-sentencing-actBrennan Center for Justice … [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:18 am
In addition to German constitutional obligations, Germany is bound by its International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) obligations, and principles of international humanitarian law (IHL). [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 4:13 pm
After all, to err is human. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 11:28 am
Its terribly disappointing in that regard," said Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights - a nonprofit law firm representing prisoners, poor people and those facing the death penalty. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 7:25 pm
The debate on this blog so far -- the debate about animals -- appears to center on questions of right. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 8:15 am
We know their stories, and we will therefore never give up fighting for their right to safety. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 10:03 am
After her first year of law school, she worked as a summer Legal Associate at the Documentation Center of Cambodia.Sadie's other human rights experience includes: research aimed at establishing a framework within which the right of Cameroonian criminal defendants' to an attorney might be ensured; and work with Kidsave International to move orphans out of institutions and into permanent homes.She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in 2002,… [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 8:19 am
Wise, acclaimed author and founder of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Katherine Meyer, partner at Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal, Nancy Perry, vice president of governmental affairs at the Humane Society of the U.S., Pamela Frasch, assistant dean and executive director of the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School, Carter Dillard, director of litigation at the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Kathy Hessler,… [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 3:00 pm
The application also undercuts Amazon’s own purported defense of its face surveillance product. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 11:21 am
Joel Slawotsky, of the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, and the Law and Business Schools of the College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel, is a former law clerk to the Hon. [read post]
26 Feb 2022, 3:15 am
Russian Christians are targets of a conspiracy by a global elite, who, using the vocabulary of liberal democracy and human rights, attack the Christian faith and the Russian nation. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 5:44 am
The firm’s Tejinder Singh was among the counsel on an amicus brief filed by international human rights advocates in support of the respondents in Hollingsworth v. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 10:42 am
Bottom line: anyone facing criminal charges in the State of Texas these days better have a great criminal defense in process as well as a good bail bondsman, because being behind bars in Texas right now is not the place that any human should be. [read post]
24 May 2010, 8:13 am
Supreme Court to delve into what he claims is a breakdown of Georgia's public defender system.Weis wants the justices to make clear that "lawyers are not fungible," said lead counsel Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.Indigent defendants, Bright said, have the same Sixth Amendment right to continuity of counsel once the attorney-client relationship is established as do those defendants with the means to hire… [read post]
