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FBI charges 14 more in Galleon Group insider trading scandal

[JURIST] Federal authorities have filed charges [press release] against 14 people in connection with insider trading at the hedge fund company Galleon Group [corporate website], weeks after the arrest [JURIST report] of the company's founder. An investigation by the ... [full story]

Rights group urges US government to reform Afghanistan detainee policy

[JURIST] The US should reform its detention policy at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in order to combat counterinsurgency, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights First (HRF). HRF called on the governments of the US and Afghanistan to.... [more]
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Beyond Guantanamo

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham
US Army (ret.)

FOREIGN
The Use of Force After the 'War on Terror': A Call for an Obama Doctrine

Christian Henderson
Oxford Brookes University

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Third Circuit favors free speech in striking down broad abortion clinic protest zones11/06
David Cortman [Senior Legal Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund]: "Over the last several years, the government has increasingly restricted pro-life speech, particularly when it occurs on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. These restrictions are, at best, highly suspect under the First Amendment - and, at worst, completely unconstitutional. And that was no less the case in the most recent ...." [more]
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PITTSBURGH: Former ECJ Judge Sir David Edward discusses Nationalism and the EU11/04
Kristine 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 ...." [more]
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Ricci v. DeStefano8/31
JURIST Guest Analyst Sheila R. Foster is the Albert A. Walsh Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Fordham Law School in New York City, where she teaches and writes on issues relating to anti-discrimination law and environmental justice. She is also Co-Director of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics. She is the author (with R. A. Lenhardt) of The Racial Subject in Legal Theory in ...." [more]
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Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide

On November 8, 1994, Oregon passed the Death With Dignity Act by voter initiative, becoming the first US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Read the Death With Dignity Act, visit the Death With Dignity National Center website and review a guide to websites and literature on doctor-assisted suicide from Virginia's Longwood University. For recent developments, see Professor Valerie J. ...." [more]
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