TEACHING JOBS 1/8/03 Calling Environmental Law profs The University of Michigan Business School and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment invite applications and nominations for the Holcim (US) Inc. Professorship of Sustainable Enterprise, and Faculty Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program. UM advises JURIST that professors of Environmental Law would be a good fit for this position. Click for further details. MORE TEACHING JOBS
LESSONS FROM THE WEB Jan. Online Education: No Substitute for the Classroom University of Florida A&M law professor Joan R. Bullock reflects on her experience with online teaching and concludes that it shouldn't replace traditional face-to-face instruction. MORE LESSONS
THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... League of Nations established
On this day in 1920, the League of Nations was formally established as the Treaty of Versailles entered into force. Review the Covenant of the League of Nations and a full League of Nations timeline.
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Thursday, January 09, 2003
INTERNATIONAL LAW... Milosevic trial resumes
Watch recorded video of Thursday's resumption of the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. MORE ON JURIST: MILOSEVIC TRIAL
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THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... Womens' rights advocate Carrie Chapman Catt born
Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist, womens' rights advocate and co-founder of the League of Women Voters, was born on this day in 1859. Visit the Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home.
Noted 10:48 AM | #
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW... US can hold citizens as "enemy combatants"
Read Wednesday's US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [PDF], holding that the United States government has properly detained an American citizen captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan by declaring him an enemy combatant and denying him an attorney. MORE ON JURIST: ENEMY COMBATANTS NEWS
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JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS... Leahy warns Bush on Pickering renomination
Outgoing Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman has fired a warning shot across President Bush's renomination of Judge Charles W. Pickering to the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. MORE ON JURIST: JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS NEWS
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CRIMINAL LAW... Maryland death penalty biased
The full text of the University of Maryland study indicating that race affects the way that death penalty cases are handled in Maryland is now available online [PDF]. Read the accompanying press release from the University of Maryland. MORE ON JURIST: DEATH PENALTY NEWS
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THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... Watergate burglary trial began
On this day in 1973, seven men went on trial in Washington DC in connection with a June 17, 1972 break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. Read more about the Watergate burglary and cover-up.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... Rehnquist, Powell sworn into Supreme Court
On this day in 1972, William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell Jr. were sworn in as Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Watch a C-SPAN profile of (now Chief) Justice Rehnquist . Visit the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives at Washington & Lee University School of Law.
Noted 10:39 AM | #
Monday, January 06, 2003
THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... NYT v. Sullivan argued
On this day in 1964, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York Times v. Sullivan. Columbia Law School professor Herbert Wechsler argued for the petitioner. Listen to the oral arguments on Oyez, Oyez, from Northwestern University.
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Sunday, January 05, 2003
THIS DAY IN LEGAL HISTORY... Dr. Spock indicted
On this day in 1968, a federal grand jury indicted child psychologist Dr. Benjamin Spock and several others for conspiring to aid draft dodgers. Spock was tried and convicted, but his conviction was later overturned. Read United States v. Spock by the US First Circuit Court of Appeals.
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