The Best Law Schools For Public Service (2023)
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The law schools that are helping graduates fight for justice in America. The post The Best Law Schools For Public Service (2023) appeared first on Above the Law.
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JURIST
MARCH 29, 2021
JURIST law student staffers have drafted and launched a petition calling on law students worldwide to support Myanmar law students defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law following the February 1 military coup that led to the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Does a Crackdown on Right-Wing Domestic Terror Threaten Everyone’s Civil Liberties?
The Crime Report
JULY 19, 2021
Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
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Can Police Unions Be a Force for Reform?
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
That would be a “mistake,” writes the paper’s author, Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. A critique of police unions that isn’t coupled with a deeper critique of (police) governance would do little to shift the balance of power,” he concluded.
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Did the Frontier Warp American Justice?
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Tonry , an American criminologist and the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. . Historians have observed that life on the frontier generated a skepticism towards government authority and a predilection for self-reliance and independent thinking.
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Forensic Testimony Distorted by ‘Implicit’ Racial Bias: Paper
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Far from an objective and equalizing tool, forensic testimony perpetuates the “presumption of guilt” for people of color involved in the criminal legal system, argue the authors of a forthcoming Criminal Law Bulletin article. Puracal and Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Aliza B.
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Call for Paper: Private International Law and Business Compliance in Asia Pacific
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 14, 2023
This national conference will be held on 21 February 2024 at The University of Sydney Law School in Australia. The event will take place at the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia, on February 21, 2024 in a hybrid format (in-person or online presentation).
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Double jeopardy clause bars Georgia from retrying man acquitted by reason of insanity
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Share So what would you expect if a state supreme court wrote an opinion directly inconsistent with “perhaps the most fundamental rule” of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in the area, an opinion that would get a failing grade in any law school course on criminal law?
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The ‘Hard Tradeoffs’ of Shrinking America’s Prisons
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Policymakers must therefore accept some of the “hard tradeoffs” of decarceration strategies if they are shown to contribute to a long-term improvement in the health and wellbeing of communities most affected by mass incarceration, writes Duke University Law Professor Ben Grunwald. To read the full paper, click here.
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EU dispatch: Greek neo-Nazi party appeal prompts bar association probe as lawyer makes Nazi salutes in court
JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .
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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse
The Crime Report
APRIL 11, 2022
And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. But for those who wish to reduce harm to people who use drugs now, not just in a hypothetical future, where drugs are no longer subject to criminal law, working with the police is of paramount importance.
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Top 7 Skills Lawyers Need During the Pandemic
SimplyLawJobs
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
If you are in a law profession, or are studying to become a lawyer, I have formulated 7 important skills that you should have during, and after this pandemic. An In-Depth Knowledge of Government Pandemic Laws. Firstly, current laws and regulations have never been changing so quickly. The UK’s Best Law Schools.
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From Data to User Interactions: Legal Issues Facing the Metaverse
The Fashion Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
While it all seems very exciting, it is worth asking: who or what governs the metaverse? Do the intricacies of land law apply here? For example, will real-world legislation that governs trespassers on private land apply in the metaverse? What are some of the key areas that, at this stage, are legally murky?
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Lock Him Up! Ranking Democrat Suggests Possible Criminal Charges Against Journalist Matt Taibbi
JonathanTurley
APRIL 22, 2023
Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent call for a criminal investigation of journalist Matt Taibbi for perjury by the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The allegation is completely meritless but Rep. But this is not about the added “A.”
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Conference Report: Global Law and Sustainable Development; Medellín, Colombia. 26-27 April, 2023
Conflict of Laws
JULY 21, 2023
Consultores, Edinburgh Law School, the Centre for C ontemporary Latin American Studies of the University of Edinburgh (CCLAS), the Law School of University of Los Andes, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.
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Turley Testifies on the Foreign Agents Registration Act
JonathanTurley
APRIL 5, 2022
We largely agree on areas of possible reforms, including the potential dangers of registration laws like FARA for free speech and association. Government Affairs Manager, Project On Government Oversight. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Here is the panel: Mr. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette. Mr. Nick Robinson.
5 Ways COVID-19 Will Transform Law Firms
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NOVEMBER 3, 2020
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Four Vital Steps You Need to Take After A Car Accident
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NOVEMBER 5, 2020
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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office
JonathanTurley
MARCH 20, 2021
The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. First is SBA By-Law 11.2
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Transforming legal borders: International judicial cooperation and technology in private international law – Part I
Conflict of Laws
JULY 8, 2024
Artificial intelligence, smart contracts, the blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the analysis of large volumes of data (big data) are demanding an exhaustive examination of the basic paradigms of law in general and the PIL in particular. 1] ** Lawyer and notary, Law School, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
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Paralegal vs. Lawyer: Key Differences and Career Paths
Paralegal-Edu.Org
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Youll find them in corporate legal departments, government agencies, private law firms, and even nonprofits. Sometimes folks jump straight into paralegal work, while others aim directly for law school. Its less expensive than law school, and the time commitment is shorter.
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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022
LawSites
JANUARY 17, 2022
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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” state once they are released by the federal government.
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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022
LawSites
JANUARY 17, 2022
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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 19 – Matt Thiese
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
And Chris is a great podcast host, he’s also an integral part of the Institute for Well-Being in Law, which is who is bringing you this podcast series. He’s our vice president of governance and I have the great privilege of being the board president of the Institute. And I know a bunch of lawyers. Or is it compounded?
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French Supreme court ruling in the Lafarge case: the private international law side of transnational criminal litigations
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher at Sciences Po Law School) In the Lafarge case (Cass. The Lafarge case highlights the stakes of transnational criminal law and its interplay with private international law. Interactions between criminal jurisdiction and conflict of laws.
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Neurotechnologically Augmented Lawyers? Billable Units of Attention? New Study Sees Threats and Opportunities for Neurotechnology and the Law
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2022
We need law reform bodies, policy makers and academics to be scrutinizing these technological advances rather than waiting for problems to emerge. “One might ask which bit of conduct constitutes the actus reus (criminal act) where a person injures another by controlling a drone by thought alone.” Legal doctrine.
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A Guide to Common Paralegal Studies Classes
How To Become A Paralegal
APRIL 30, 2018
This may also be called a civil law class. In this class, you’re going to learn the basics of the civil law system. You’ll learn about civil law terms as well as how the civil court runs and how both of these differ from the criminal system. It could even be a government agency. Criminal Law.
Twitter’s Trust Bust: New Documents Show How “Trust” Executives Misled Congress and the Public
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Some of us have been raising concerns over Twitter’s massive censorship system for years, including what I called the emergence of a “ shadow state ” where corporations carry out censorship the Constitution bars the government from doing. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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“Picking Quarrels And Provoking Trouble”: China Sentences Journalist Who Reported On Covid-19 To Four Years in Prison
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 28, 2020
.” According to a The New York Times report, the sentence is meant to silence any others who would share information on the failures and responsibilities of the Chinese government for spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Notably, the Chinese continue to scrub any discussion of its role in social media.
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2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention
LegalTalkNetwork
JULY 11, 2017
2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention: Internal Government Communication with KeyNote Speaker Justice Labarga. 2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention: Criminal Law Update. This last year saw a lot of changes in criminal law through court cases. Professor Brian Fitzpatrick (professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School).
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Before Joe, James and Hunter, There Was Great-Great-Grandpa Moses
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Fittingly, Robinette was a government contractor. They told Lincoln that he was a political ally who was “ardent, and Influential … in opposing Traitors and their schemes to destroy the Government.” (It Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. and Maurice C.
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ABA Midyear Meeting 2019
LegalTalkNetwork
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
We also learned more about the ABA’s actions in immigration, the government shutdown, and changes to their website. American Bar Association President Bob Carlson joins hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek to discuss his tenure as president as well as ABA initiatives in the government shutdown, immigration, membership outreach, and much more.
Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2023
” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”
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Can Biden Resurrect the Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’?
The Crime Report
AUGUST 3, 2021
government is settled by a deposit into the U.S. and Smith detail how the DOJ maintained a list of government-approved nonprofit beneficiaries, many of them left-leaning. directs The Heritage Foundation’s project to counter abuse of the criminal law, particularly at the federal level. and Smith write. Larkin, Jr.
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What Europe Can Teach Us About Ending Mass Incarceration
The Crime Report
AUGUST 24, 2021
A new paper by Alessandro Corda, a law professor at Queen’s University Belfast, finds that comparative criminal justice study was once commonplace, especially before America split from its European cousins to engage in mass incarceration. solidify its place as an exporter of law and policy. He writes from Philadelphia.
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The Hunter Biden Reclamation Project: Jimmy Kimmel Is The Latest To Embrace Hunter’s Scandal Spin
JonathanTurley
APRIL 9, 2021
and overall “expertise on corporate governance.” Most law school graduates work for six years just to make junior partner in a firm. Hunter then emphasized that he was qualified to serve on the board of an energy company after serving on “a dozen boards” like those for Amtrak and World Food Program U.S.,
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The Seven-Percent Solution: How Hunter Biden Allies are Turning to Addiction as a Last Line of Defense
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland has already protected both Joe and Hunter Biden by refusing to appoint a special counsel despite the obvious need for such an appointment under the governing rules. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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Judge Order Puts Tenured Professor Back In Classroom
Above The Law
JANUARY 31, 2025
Lailluminator has coverage: A state judge has ordered LSU to allow its law professor Ken Levy to return to teaching duties. Levy, a tenured professor of constitutional and criminal law, sued the university earlier this week, saying it violated his First Amendment rights and its own policies regarding tenured faculty.
Biden’s Clintonesque Defense: I Did Not Have Interactions with Those People
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 10, 2023
has even doggedly maintained that the laptop may really be Russian disinformation, despite confirmation of its content by witnesses, government investigators, and several media organizations. Even now, some are frantically joining Biden in calls for blind denials. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) It won’t work.
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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., The lead plaintiffs in three landmark civil rights cases. Drew Saunders Days III.
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The Grifter Defense: The Bidens Move to Embrace Influence Peddling with a Twist
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Indeed, it is a form of corruption that is so damaging to good government that the United States has pushed global agreements to ban influence peddling in other countries. Whether or not Biden delivered, the family business corrupted the functions of government by converting offices into types of commodities. and Maurice C.
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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 26, 2022
After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.
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Did Michael Cohen Commit Perjury in the Trump Trial?
JonathanTurley
MAY 15, 2024
With the government resting after Cohen’s cross examination, I believe that an honest judge would have no alternative but to grant a motion for a directed verdict and end the case before it goes to the jury. Judge Juan Merchan will now have to give the full measure of his commitment to the rule of law.
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