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Conflict of Laws and Diversity of Opinions—A View of The Nigerian Jurisdiction

Conflict of Laws

Cosmas Emeziem, JSD Cornell University, Drinan Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA. It has anchorage on doctrines such as stare decisis and precedents. ©Author 2024. Thus, quality judicial deliberations and decisions reflect institutional competence. 1987) LLJR –SC.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. When it was instituted, there was overt classism in the legal system: you’re basically only going to have a lawyer if you can afford one.

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Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar Headed Back To Harvard Law

Above The Law

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast , and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Michael Dreeben, another solicitor general’s office veteran, is listed as Prelogar’s co-instructor. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her.

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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. As lawyers, as women, as mothers, as advocates for children’s rights, we could easily despair.

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

The Crime Report

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?

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