Sociology of Law
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that in all felony trials the accused must be provided with legal counsel. The case of Gideon v. Wainwright (372 U.S. 355, 1963) was widely celeb...
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Ok, now I am really confused.
Yesterday, I wrote a post referring to a Steve Kornacki column about the possibility (granted: extremely remote) that an independent campaign by Michael Bloomberg coul...
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Attorneys for undocumented immigrants who have suffered violent crimes sued the federal government Wednesday for failing to issue protective visas approved by Congress more than six years ago.The 2...
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The judge in the case against the first U.S. officer court-martialed for refusing to ship out for Iraq barred several experts in international and constitutional law from testifying Monday about th...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that she dislikes being "all alone on the court" nearly a year after the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.Ginsburg, who spoke to an assem...
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The '08 presidential candidates were strong in their schooldays on subjects that would become the tools of their trade as politicians _ English, civics, history and the art of persuasion. Weak poin...
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Yerevan (dpa) - The pro-Russian Republican Party of Armenia's
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian won the most seats in parliamentary
elections, results showed Sunday.
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Singapore (dpa) - A public forum on gay issues scheduled for
Tuesday has been banned in Singapore in the latest slap in a week
against homosexual events.
Prof...
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A renowned legal scholar was reappointed Monday as dean of the new law school at the University of California, Irvine, a week after the school rejected him.Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal scholar and ...
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CIA Director Michael Hayden defended his agency's interrogation practices Tuesday as political pressure mounted on President Bush's attorney general nominee to reject a technique that allegedly was...
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Democrat Barack Obama's solution for some of the crises he believes the nation faces? Lawyers.It may be expected, considering that the Illinois senator and presidential hopeful is a Harvard-educate...
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