tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:54:24 +0000http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)Blogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-4466057805151499573Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:16:00 +00002009-11-05T08:54:24.123-05:00Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh...Kristine Long Rather fortuitously, I was able to go with Professor Ron Brand, Director of the Center for International Legal Education, to pick up http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/11/pittsburgh-former-ecj-judge-sir-david.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Joseph Schaeffer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-5866750502054653578Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:11:00 +00002009-11-04T12:19:14.478-05:00Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq...As an Iraqi lawyer and US law student, I often check some of the Iraqi websites meant to inform people about draft laws being put before the Iraqi Parliament. One day, I was reading through one such website when my eyes caught a brief report on the October 6, 2009 session of Parliament. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/11/iraq-parliamentary-immunity-in.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Max Parmelee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6074104389522624882Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:18:00 +00002009-10-27T14:23:01.013-04:00Pakistani officials announced last week that murder charges had been filed earlier this month against the nation's former president, Pervez Musharraf, who is now on a speaking tour in the US and the UK. Andrew Gilmore, Pitt Law '10, attended one of his lectures in late September...Having extensively covered the recent legal and political trials and tribulations of Pakistan over the past two http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/pittsburgh-former-pakistan-president.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew Gilmore)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6275698099112525334Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:19:00 +00002009-10-22T14:08:17.944-04:00Tom Carpenter, Pitt Law '11, spent his summer as a Legal Extern at the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Palau...The most recent general election in the Republic of Palau, held on November 4, 2008, was a historic event for the small island nation. In addition to electing a new President, Vice President, senators, and delegates, the people of Palau passed 22 constitutional http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/palau-jury-trials-come-to-south-pacific.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew Gilmore)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6998297621342694252Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:36:00 +00002009-10-23T09:01:53.633-04:00Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a talk on a proposed national security court system given by US Coast Guard Captain Glenn Sulmasy*, a law professor at the US Coast Guard Academy and a National Security and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University...Over the past seven years the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has excited more controversy than perhaps any other aspect of the "War on http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/us-national-security-courts-sulmasys.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Joseph Schaeffer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-4912098851939893504Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:06:00 +00002009-10-21T09:36:00.188-04:00Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11; and Rick Grubb, Pitt Law '10; attended a University of Pittsburgh speech by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speech during the G-20 summit...Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came to the University of Pittsburgh during the G-20 summit to give some remarks of his own on the 50th anniversary of President Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the city. The format was very http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/g-20-extra-russia-president-medvedev.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6452505849420481624Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:20:00 +00002009-10-13T17:55:16.227-04:00Adrienne Lester, Pitt Law '11, interned at the Honorable House of Representatives for the Republic of Liberia this summer...West Africa evokes images of Juju child soldiers, dismembered limbs, and volatile men in short-sleeved safari suits with aviator sunglasses. When I had the opportunity to intern with the House of Representatives for the Republic of Liberia in the summer of 2009, I accepted http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/liberia-destruction-of-documents.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-5987039745206708613Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:23:00 +00002009-10-04T19:38:30.807-04:00Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, Lynsie Clott, and Aaron Freudenthal attended licensed and unlicensed protests primarily organized by self-proclaimed anarchist groups during the G-20 Summit...."I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"-Beatrice Hall, Friends of VoltaireThe City of Pittsburgh undertook an enormous security burden by agreeing to host the G-20 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/10/g-20-extra-anarchists-in-pittsburgh.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ingrid Burke)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-5535789335783883757Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:17:00 +00002009-10-12T09:12:31.335-04:00Andrew Morgan, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture given by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit...I'll be the first to admit that I don't know an awful lot about Australian politics. When I received a press pass for a speech by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University last Thursday, I wasn't sure what to expect. In the http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/dnp-kevin-rudd.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew Morgan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-319319245530306391Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:20:00 +00002009-10-21T09:37:40.034-04:00Kindra Mohr, Boston College Law '11, was a consultant at the headquarters of the World Bank* in Washington, DC...One of the fastest growing areas in international law, and within the international development field in general, is the expansion and enforcement of anti-corruption standards. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption, along with domestic laws such as the Foreign Corrupt http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/washington-dc-world-bank-as-enforcer-of.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-5871577257474689481Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +00002009-10-13T22:22:45.576-04:00Christian Ehret, Pitt Law '11, observed a G-20 Resistance Project protest held by self-proclaimed anarchists in Pittsburgh on Thursday...I ventured down to the G-20 Resistance gathering in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon with the sole intention of finding out what motivated people to be there. I was rather pessimistic, and expected inarticulate, uninformed http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/g-20-resistance-project-demonstration.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Ehret)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-3158952868925355301Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-09-28T12:53:49.419-04:00Abigail Salisbury, JURIST's Executive Director, observed events in downtown Pittsburgh on the first day of the G-20 Summit... I was able to get a press pass to the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after going through security at Mellon Arena on Thursday morning, I was taken by shuttle to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the site of the summit itself. Upon arrival, I was http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/g-20-extra-first-day-of-summit-mostly.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Abigail Salisbury)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-4750719910078467943Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:26:00 +00002009-09-25T12:49:57.523-04:00Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, attended a speech given by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday...Accompanied by his wife, Margarita, and staff, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso came to the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday to accept an honorary doctorate of Public and International Affairs from Chancellor Mark http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/g-20-extra-ec-president-barroso-visits.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Abigail Salisbury)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-7604166147365415388Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:06:00 +00002009-10-21T09:32:18.390-04:00Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, attended an "alternative" G-20 event on world hunger and economic decline which was hosted by the People's Summit on Pittsburgh's North Side...This week I was given the opportunity to attend several G-20 alternative/resistance events in Pittsburgh. On Monday night, I opted for a lecture and panel discussion hosted by the People's Summit entitled "Ending World Poverty,http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/g-20-extra-peoples-summit-addresses.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ingrid Burke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6733043904433601220Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:19:00 +00002009-09-16T16:25:16.721-04:00Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, spent her summer conducting research at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium...In early spring, I told a close friend in Pittsburgh that I would be spending the summer in Belgium. “It’s good you’re going now,” he told me seriously, “since it’s not going to be around that much longer.” From my then-rudimentary knowledge of Belgian politics, I http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/09/belgium-language-laws-and-regional.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6743627977113926632Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:23:00 +00002009-08-28T08:32:48.526-04:00Anna Mandel, Boston College Law '11, writes about her experience at the Latvian Constitutional Court.... In the United States, state and federal courts are not bound by the precedents or laws of other jurisdictions. For example, the Supreme Court of Texas is not bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of California. While courts are free to base their holdings on the logic used by courtshttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/08/latvia-constitutional-jurisprudence-and.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ingrid Burke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-3999675660615733544Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:38:00 +00002009-08-19T12:46:00.236-04:00Ekaterina Porras Sivolobova, legal intern at the Center for Justice and International Law in Buenos Aires, Argentina, writes about the military justice system in Chile....Since Chile emerged as a democratic state in 1990, it has done very little to reform its military justice system to comply with international human rights standards. The military justice system in Chile denies its citizens due http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/08/chile-military-justice-and.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ingrid Burke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-2342793241640134433Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +00002009-08-17T17:56:58.118-04:00Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, writes from Brussels about the European Union elections...It would have been easy to forget entirely about June's elections for the European Parliament if one ignored the election posters plastering European cities, portraying diverse faces of every color, creed, and gender beaming out of every convenience store window. Indeed, it seemed many Europeans themselves http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/07/eu-european-union-elections.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Abigail Salisbury)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6249032620458448497Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +00002009-10-22T14:48:32.690-04:00Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LL.M. '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq...This summer, I returned to Iraq to intern with the Global Justice Project: Iraq, which is run by the University of Utah. The purpose of the project is to provide the Iraqi Council of Representatives (the legislative branch in Iraq) with legal advice and other legal assistance. While http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/07/iraq-should-anti-smoking-laws-be.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Abigail Salisbury)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-8166337489935489424Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:02:00 +00002009-06-10T09:55:37.783-04:00Ana Nikodijevic, visiting scholar from the School of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, comments on the ongoing development of human rights law in Serbia...Although the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s are a distant memory for much of the world, they had massive consequences for Serbia. After a decade of Milosevic's unscrupulous regime and ideology, the country was left with a ravaged http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/06/serbia-on-path-towards-rule-of-law.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Necia Hobbes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-557567475212861039Fri, 08 May 2009 12:45:00 +00002009-06-05T16:00:27.730-04:00Guest commentator Vicheka Lay,* a legal consultant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reflects on Cambodia's changing legal market...Cambodian legal practitioners face many new challenges brought on by the nation’s increased participation in regional and global trade, as well as the influx of foreign-owned businesses. Cambodian lawyers must be aware of the latest developments in legal scholarship to http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/05/cambodia-global-integration-challenges.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Necia Hobbes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-2345339571321140784Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:50:00 +00002009-04-27T13:05:32.900-04:00Wendy Doernberg, Pitt Law '11, studied Israeli law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem for 6 months...Unlike the United States, Israel has yet to adopt a formal written constitution. Even some of the laws which form the basis for governmental decisions came into being only relatively recently. I learned while studying in Jerusalem that the lack of a written constitution http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/04/israel-broad-view-of-standing.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-6855590360276752368Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:00 +00002009-04-15T16:06:21.806-04:00JURIST Dateline Editor Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, lived in the Philippines with her family for 5 years...Filipino women currently face a reproductive health care battle for the right to obtain contraception. In 2008, a group of legislators drafted House Bill 5043, which is a two-pronged plan to broaden the reproductive rights of Filipinas. First, the bill seeks to inform women about http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/03/philippines-morality-and-choice-battle.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-7521154818007150334Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:10:00 +00002009-03-15T18:36:06.152-04:00JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, studied for a year in Singapore...In the Western media, the tiny island nation of Singapore is typecast as conservative. In January, a man and woman attracted the attention of the international news media for taking a stroll through a busy pedestrian street in Singapore wearing nothing but flip-flops. The stroll ended in arrest. Invariably, foreign news http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/03/singapore-solving-instability-with-one.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Kristine Long)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-1490580255575490982Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:13:00 +00002009-04-27T13:45:23.287-04:00Guest commentator Vicheka Lay, a legal consultant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reflects on the Khmer Rouge trials...In February, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) began the trial of one of the Khmer Rouge’s former leaders, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as "Duch". Guek Eav allegedly committed a large number of human rights violations in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and is the http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/02/cambodia-khmer-rouge-trials-set.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Necia Hobbes)0