Search for: "American Center for Law and Justice"
Results 561 - 580
of 10,772
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
9 Sep 2021, 7:30 am
While unable to explore the visitor center at the American Cemetery in Normandy, all was not lost. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 9:30 pm
The Langum Foundation also named LHB guest blogger Anna Lvovsky (Harvard Law School) a finalist for Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall:In this wide-ranging and imaginative study, Anna Lvovsky centers the law’s confrontation with gay life in the United States in the mid-20th century, training her eye on criminal justice at the local level. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 9:45 am
Today, we filed Center for Media Justice v. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 5:00 pm
Despite the laws that prohibit aggressive and harsh sentences for juveniles, American rates of incarceration are still significantly higher than other industrialized nations. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 2:15 pm
From the Brennan Center for Justice: 1. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 8:53 am
Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center: Unfortunately, [Justice Stevens's] resignation gives President Obama yet another opportunity to carry through on his threat to nominate justices who will indulge their left-wing policy preferences rather than neutrally interpret the law. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 12:01 pm
A recent report by the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liza Goitein, however, exposes just how deep the problem of keeping even the law secret runs—with over-classification fostering constitutionally suspect legal reasoning and the rapid erosion of any meaningful check on governmental power. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 7:10 am
Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project, and Jess Lu, a third year law student at Stanford and a civil justice fellow at the Rhode Center, who was formerly a senior associate consultant at Bain & Co. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 8:49 pm
After a long procedural history, described in detail below, on July 20, 2016, the full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision finding that SB 14 has a racially discriminatory effect in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, because the law disproportionately diminishes African Americans’ and Latinos’ ability to participate in the political process. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 2:00 am
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – the Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice (CCRRJ) presents lecture on housing as a human right issue today from 5-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 8:03 am
My invitation came from Peggy Kirk Hall, a colleague from the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA). [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 12:06 pm
The intro:The madness of Washington’s across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration is causing real damage to the American justice system — undermining the sound functioning of the courts and particularly imperiling the delivery of effective legal representation to poor people accused of federal crimes. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 3:12 pm
The cry for racial justice and equity — amplified by the international protests seen in 2020 — shows that the American public is acutely aware that the criminal legal system is in dire need of overhaul. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 2:00 pm
Should the facts of this matter reveal that the community center or parking lot owners failed to provide adequate security to protect those on its premises, the families of Kendrick Shaw and Rocca Guyton may seek justice and elect to pursue legal claims for their wrongful deaths. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 12:45 pm
Doyle's latest scholarship, "Learning from Error in American Criminal Justice," appears in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 100, No.1. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 6:31 am
On Thursday, September 12, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg renewed her annual commitment to speak to first-year law students at the Georgetown University Law Center, whose faculty included her late husband, Marty Ginsburg. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 6:03 am
Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Rutgers University. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 1:20 am
Marshall told members of the American Bar Association at its midyear meeting at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 11:53 am
The law grew out of long-standing concerns that there was a double standard when it came to imposing the ultimate punishment, with someone who murdered a white person more likely to face execution than someone who murdered an African-American. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 7:38 am
Stevens, 91, spoke and received an award at a Washington celebration of the 25th anniversary of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, which recruits volunteers from top law firms to assist death row inmates in their appeals. [read post]
