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JURIST Digital Scholars Program Calls for Applications for Summer 2021

JURIST

2021 Challenge Areas. How do we encourage innovation while protecting privacy and preventing malfeasance? Selected scholars will work with mentors to refine and complete their projects between June and August 2021. As an extension of JURIST’s mission, we launched the JURIST Digital Scholars (JDS) Program in the summer of 2020.

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Mexican Journalists Fear for Their Safety After Three Killings So Far This Year

The Crime Report

She expressed concern that possessing proof of malfeasance by the ex-governor, who has denied any involvement in her murder, could put her in danger. More than 1,900 people were killed in Tijuana just last year, one of the highest annual body counts for any city in a country where nine reporters were killed in 2021.

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United States: The Corporate Transparency Act: Blinding Small Businesses To Shine A Light On Corporate Malfeasance - Eckland & Blando

Mondaq

1] Buried deep within the 2021 National. If you are a small business owner, your regulatory burden is about to increase thanks to the "Corporate Transparency Act" ("CTA").[1]

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LawProse Lesson 363: A British Counterpart to Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage (Without Prejudice)

Law Prose

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A community-college spat leads to a First Amendment retaliation claim

SCOTUSBlog

Wilson contends that just before and during his time in office, the board “was plagued by accusations of corruption and other malfeasance, culminating in the longest-serving trustee’s conviction on federal bribery charges.” Houston Community College came to the Supreme Court, which in April 2021 agreed to weigh in.

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LawProse Lesson 363: A British Counterpart to Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage (Without Prejudice)

Law Prose

If you’re wondering whether to use blood spatter or blood splatter , comprised or composed , continual or continuous , malfeasance or misfeasance , penal or punitive , GDLU. In the field of legal usage, nothing else has come close—especially in the current third edition. has long been the source.

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LawProse Lesson 363: A British Counterpart to Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage (Without Prejudice)

Law Prose

splatter , comprised or composed , continual or continuous , malfeasance or misfeasance , penal or punitive , GDLU. But now, for the first time, there’s a British counterpart to GDLU : Peter Butt’s new book The Lawyer’s Style Guide (2021), put out by Hart. current third edition. has long been the source. countries.

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