JURIST - Paper Chase

Wednesday, February 19

New in law reviews
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 09:01:29 PM

The Duke Law and Technology Review has published a new "iBrief" on the Pros and Cons of Online Dispute Resolution. Vanderbilt Law Review has posted its 2002 Symposium Convergence on Delaware: Corporate Bankruptcy and Corporate Governance, and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law has posted its latest issue, including an article by my University of Pittsburgh School of Law colleague Anthony Infanti entitled Spontaneous Tax Coordination: On Adopting a Comparative Approach to Reforming the U.S. International Tax Regime, plus Notes on rape in international law and slavery reparations for Africa.

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Terrorist Threat Integration Center
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 08:44:01 PM

The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has posted streaming video of its February 14 hearing on President Bush's proposal to create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center co-ordinating the counterterrorism intelligence effeorts of the FBI, CIA and other government agencies.

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New caselaw - IPOs, First Amendment
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 08:24:48 PM

New and interesting Opinions issued Wednesday included In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, a decision by Judge Shira Scheidlin of US District Court for the Southern District of New York refusing to throw out an investor lawsuit accusing Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs Group and 53 other investment banks of rigging hundreds of IPOs; and Lassonde v. Pleasanton Unified School District, a Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals panel holding that the action of school officials censoring sectarian, proselytizing portions of a speech that Plaintiff gave at his high school graduation ceremony did not violate his First Amendment rights and were in fact necessary to avoid violation of the Establishment Clause.

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UN Security Council debate on Iraq
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 06:35:07 PM

The UN Security Council Wednesday resumed debate on Iraq's compliance with Resolution 1441. A full summary of statements, plus streaming video of Wednesday's statements is now available from the UN.

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Law school briefs - afternoon edition
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 03:44:38 PM

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law announced Wednesday that it has hired Ronald Mann, a Texas alum and a leading authority on commercial law currently teaching at the University of Michigan Law School, to hold the William Stamps Farish Professorship in Law, effective September 1, 2003.... Victoria Dodd of Suffolk University Law School has authored a new treatise on education law....

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Rwanda genocide judgment
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 03:28:19 PM

A Seventh-Day Adventist pastor and his son, a medical doctor, were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. They had been charged for their alleged participation in killings in the areas of Mugonero and Bisesero from April to June 1994. Read the ICTR press release and the summary of judgment.

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University of Michigan briefs in affirmative action admissions cases
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 01:01:13 PM

The University of Michigan Wednesday posted its briefs filed Tuesday with the US Supreme Court defending affirmative action admissions policies for the University of Michigan Law School (read the brief in Grutter v. Bollinger[PDF]) and its undergraduate College for Literature, Science and the Arts (read the brief in Gratz v. Bollinger[PDF]).

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Law prof blawg-watch
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 12:15:49 PM

Wednesday (so far) on law professors' weblogs: on InstaPundit, Glenn Reynolds looks forward to participating in Friday's Marbury v. Madison 200th Anniversary Symposium (the actual anniversary is Monday the 24th) at his own University of Tennessee College of Law.... on his fine new-and-improved Legal Theory blog, Lawrence Solum of Loyola Law School Los Angeles comments on Philip Petit's new SSRN paper on criminal justice.... on The Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh of UCLA School of Law is frustrated with a law review editor.... and Tung Yin of the University of Iowa College of Law has a new blog, simply titled Yin (thanks to Howard Bashman for the last link).

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New legal scholarship - criminal justice, Bush v. Gore goes global
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 10:09:09 AM

New and interesting papers on SSRN Wednesday include two pieces by political scientists - Is Criminal Justice Politically Feasible? by Philip Pettit of the Department of Politics, Princeton University, and Resituating the Judicialization of Politics: Bush v. Gore as a Global Trend, by Ran Hirschl of the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

War crimes tribunal confirmation of fugitive Albanian's arrest
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 09:55:57 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia confirmed Wednesday that the fourth Albanian indicted for crimes committed at a KLA prison in Kosovo has been arrested by Slovenian authorities (not in Vienna as originally reported on VOA). Read the full ICTY press release. Human Rights Watch has praised the arrests as an "important step for the cause of justice in the Balkans."

Law school briefs - morning edition
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 09:47:19 AM

The Black Law Students Associations at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and Stanford Law School joined to file an amicus brief Tuesday in support of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.... The University of Chicago Law School is planning major renovations for the fall.... A letter written by Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington professor Robert Heidt opposing that law school's affirmative action admissions policy is stirring controversy.... Incoming Harvard Law Review president and HLS 2L Daniel Kirschner is the subject of a profile in the Harvard Crimson....

February 19 - This day at law
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/19/2003 06:30:45 AM

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066, authorizing the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. Learn more about the internment of Japanese Americans from Vernillia Randall at the University of Dayton School of Law and read the first chapter of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters of World War II, by Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina Law School.