Controlling The Masses Through Fear | By Lancelot Larson |
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I was watching Hannity and Colmes last night, and they had Bill Bennett as a guest. The amusing part of the show was when Mr. Bennett said something to the effect that Cho Seung-Hui was a “vacuum” for the garbage of American culture, like Tarantino movies. After laughi... |
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Sister Helen Prejean To Speak at Richmond School of Law | By Amy E. Wong |
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Sister Helen Prejean will speak at Richmond School of Law's Moot Court Room on Monday, April 23. She will discuss her work, sign books, and answer questions from the audience. Corinna Lain, professor at Richmond School of Law, said, "Sister Helen has been credited with playing an instrumen... |
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The Necessity of Election Reform | By Amy E. Wong |
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I was too young to vote in the 2000 elections, but I still remember the impact it left on me. I was a huge supporter of Gore, and it was a huge disappointment when I heard Gore say, "For the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession."I was relu... |
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LexisNexis’ Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest now on Amazon.com | By Puja Mahendru Afuwale |
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LexisNexis' very popular law digest, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest, is now available on a "print on demand" basis on Amazon.com. A single copy of the Law Digest is available for a suggested MSRP of $24.95 and with no minimum order. The Law Digest would be delivered the ...
URL: http://lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=11778
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Supreme Court delivers Act; baby safe, mom’s fate hangs… | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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The U.S. Supreme Court has done it again. It has nodded its head, wise or otherwise, to a historical motion — the Partial -Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 — that curbs the killing of tri-semester fetuses. The “partial birth abortion,” or outlawed medical procedure,...
URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/18/scotus.abortion/
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Massacres Were Bound to Happen | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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The grisly slaughter at Virginia Tech calls for both remedial and retributive action. It necessitates the need to search for the root of VT’s failure--to figure out why the system failed to prevent or minimize the scale of the event. It calls for us to safeguard ourselves against similar cam...
URL: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/17/191931.shtml?s=lh
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The Globalization of Antitrust Law | By Amy E. Wong |
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"Modern antitrust law is global antitrust law," said Einer Elhauge, a professor at Harvard Law School. His assertion is well grounded, too. With growing frequency, antitrust law and economics have been reaching global proportions.Elhauge was so disappointed when he realized traditional a... |
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Ethics vs. Law: Legal luminaries brainstorm implications | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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"Law and eth-ics, law and eth-ics — they go together like nurture and gen-e-tics."Thus sang Jonathan Shapiro. And no, he wasn’t trying to do a better job than Frank Sinatra on the number “Love and Marriage.” Shapiro was one of the many ethical scholars participati...
URL: http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/13728.html
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Mark Drumbl Examines International Law and War Crimes in New Book | By Amy E. Wong |
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Mark Drumbl, a professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has published a new book: Atrocity, Punishment and International Law. It is the first major study on how people who commit atrocity crimes need to be punished.Drumbl studied regions affected by atrocities, such as Rwanda... |
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Sallie Mae changes hands, says yes to buyout deal | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Sallie Mae is changing its status. It will now be a private loan company. The student-loan giant has agreed to be acquired for $25 billion, or $60 per share in a buyout deal, by two private-equity firms and two banks.Sallie Mae struck the deal with J.C. Flowers & Co., Friedman Fleischer & L...
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134163/
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