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4 Nov 2024, 12:33 pm by Giesela Ruehl
The code it replaced was rooted in the country’s Spanish heritage but overlain by common law principles, as the island of Puerto Rico has been a territory of the United States since 1898. [read post]
4 Nov 2024, 7:58 am by Ann Carlson
China is the dominant market, followed by the United States. [read post]
4 Nov 2024, 4:20 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
In 2015, Congress enacted the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 USC§ 20144) which establishes the Fund to provide compensation to certain people who are injured in or by acts of international state-sponsored terrorism, and who obtain a judgment issued by a United States district court under state or federal law against a foreign state that was designated as a state… [read post]
3 Nov 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
Conclusion While America and the world are nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential elections in the United States, many activist investors are hoping that Trump prevails. [read post]
2 Nov 2024, 9:05 pm by Kyle Bradley
Sellers: The United States is unique among peer nations in placing the burden of registering to vote on individuals. [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
  A notice of Molly Brady's  Brandeis Chair lecture at HLS, much of which she devoted to the legal history of single-family dwellings in the United States (Harvard Law Today).The University of Helsinki Faculty of Law "invites applications for a fixed term employment as a doctoral researcher or a postdoctoral researcher" with the project Comparing Early Modern Colonial Laws, led by Academy Professor Heikki Pihlajamäki. [read post]
”[13] And on October 30, 2024, a group of 15 state attorneys general wrote to House and Senate leaders asking Congress to adopt a federal price gouging law that “complement[s] state prohibitions . [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 6:08 am by Catherine Amirfar
Constitution explicitly requires some form of congressional participation for the United States to enter into most treaties and other binding international agreements (other than those that fall squarely within the president’s independent authorities over foreign relations). [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 6:07 am by Sean Murphy
We focus here on one such practice, in which the president acts to withdraw the United States from international agreements. [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 5:35 am by David Oscar Markus
Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution reads, in relevant part:No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.That’s why when you hear of some famous politician getting knighted or some other play… [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 5:00 am by Jennifer González
By 1865, there were an estimated 35,000 miles of track spanning the United States. [read post]
1 Nov 2024, 4:45 am by Beatrice Yahia
A Congress Covid subcommittee on Wednesday referred the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s criminal case to the Department of Justice over alleged lies to Congress on nursing home data reporting. [read post]
31 Oct 2024, 9:05 pm by Matthew Chagares
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia originally blocked the program after the United States and public interest groups, including the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, brought suit. [read post]
31 Oct 2024, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
If a state can do that, we see no reason why a state cannot decide to treat ballots in the possession of the United States Postal Service (USPS) or similarly reliable common carriers in like fashion. [read post]
31 Oct 2024, 10:43 am by Scott Bomboy
In the United States, voters do not select presidential candidates directly. [read post]
31 Oct 2024, 6:30 am by ernst
One of the era's most important lessons is this: if the United States is to remain a beacon of freedom and hope across the world, it must begin with transparency and accountability at home. [read post]
31 Oct 2024, 5:54 am by Rasheed Ahmed
   Even a phone call made in the United States can have serious repercussions for foreign dissidents. [read post]