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26 Apr 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Emily Blanck argues that the fugitive slave clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 2) had its roots in a 1783 ruling by Justice William Cushing of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus freeing eight South Carolina slaves being detained in jail in order to be returned to their masters. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 12:00 am
At the time of that ruling, there were 49 individuals serving such prison terms in Europe, compared with 49,000 serving life without parole in the United States, according to the Sentencing Project. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Democrats in general, however, have generally at least been supportive of the IRS as an agency that must enforce the law—a law that, as former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated, is “the price we pay for civilized society. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 11:00 am by Wells Bennett
Increasingly, the normative foundations of the international legal order are shifting away from the traditional bedrock principles of State sovereignty and State security to new foundations based on human rights and human security. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 2:19 am by INFORRM
Data Protection and Data Privacy The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced that it will appoint a new position as special rapporteur on the right to privacy. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 5:33 am
After several paragraphs in which the authors explain why it would benefit Palestinians to develop a nonviolent resistance movement, they then quote Malcolm X, “‘we declare our right on this earth, to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being, in this society, on this earth, on this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 3:30 am by David DePaolo
When workers' compensation was first being bandied about in the political circles of the United States, labor unions wanted nothing to do with it. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 5:05 am by The Book Review Editor
 And perhaps least of all to the United States, given its profoundly different and deeply rooted constitutional understandings of the separation of powers. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 5:26 pm by Nancy E. Halpern, DVM, Esq.
According to the USDA: Free-ranging populations of feral swine (also called feral hogs and wild pigs) in the United States are located in at least 35 States. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 12:46 pm by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
El Secretario del Departamento de Justicia, César Miranda, anunció un esfuerzo histórico de colaboración, entre distintas agencias gubernamentales con la Sociedad Protectora de Animales de los Estados Unidos (The Humane Society of the United States), dirigido a fortalecer la aplicación de las leyes de Puerto Rico sobre el bienestar y la protección de animales. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 3:57 pm
  This approach provides civil society with a substantially expanded role to represent those who are incapable of doing so though they are directly affected by the humabnr ights wrongs fo enterprises and the states complicit in those behaviors. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 9:08 pm by Lyle Denniston
   It did not do so, for example, in its most recent ruling in a major gay rights case — the 2013 decision in United States v. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 4:24 pm by Bruce Clark
The most common serogroups reported to cause foodborne illness in the United States are O26, O111, O103, O121, O45, and O145. [56] These six serotypes account for 75% of human infections. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 9:47 am by Lisl Brunner
These reports underscore that while most states do not appear to conduct communications surveillance on as large a scale as the United States and the United Kingdom appear to, the right to privacy in communications must be addressed on a global level. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 2:42 pm by JB
That is because it doesn't really take seriously what it means to be gay or lesbian in our society today. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 9:30 am by azatty
William Meinecke, a historian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s leadership development programs. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 6:08 am
How is the legal order responding as the world moves from a unipolar system dominated by the United States to a more multipolar system? [read post]