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Former Intel executive pleads guilty to insider trading in Galleon probe

[JURIST] Former Intel Capital [corporate website] executive Rajiv Goel pleaded guilty [press release, PDF] to insider trading charges on Monday in connection with the probe surrounding Galleon Group [partnership website] hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam [Financial... [full story]

ICC considering investigation into recent Nigeria violence

[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) will consider a petition from the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) calling for an investigation into recent violence in Jos, Nigeria, according to a response letter sent to SERAP.... [more]
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A Solomonic Judgment on Elections in Iraq

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U. Utah College of Law


Constructive Criticism: Presidential Opposition to Supreme Court Rulings

William G. Ross
Samford University

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Attorney General is correct to insist on civilian trial for Abdulmutallab2/09
Billy Corriher [Attorney and researcher, Bill of Rights Defense Committee]: "Attorney General Eric Holder is standing firm on the decision to try Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the attempted Christmas Day bomber, in a criminal trial. Some senators critical of the decision not to use military tribunals have gone so far as to introduce legislation to block funding for civilian trials for terrorism ...." [more]
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IRAQ: Citizenship and Women's Rights under the Iraqi Constitution1/30
Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, was an observer to the Iraqi Constitutional Review Committee. She shares her experiences with the issue of inheritance of citizenship and women's rights in her home country of Iraq...Under Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime, children born of Iraqi women and foreign men could not inherit Iraqi citizenship, whereas children of Iraqi men and ...." [more]
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The Lisbon Treaty1/25
JURIST Guest Analyst Andreas R. Ziegler is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences and a Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009. His papers are available on SSRN. On 1 December 2009, the Lisbon Treaty ...." [more]
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International Jurist Louise Arbour born

On February 10, 1947, the Honourable Louise Arbour was born in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Arbour has since become a distinguished Canadian and International Jurist, serving as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, as Chief Prosecutor for War Crimes with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.See recent ...." [more]
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