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RETRACTION: 'Back-Alley Banking in China'

RETRACTION: 'Back-Alley Banking in China'

Andrew Morgan

January 15, 2015 04:24:07 pm

JURIST has retracted "Back-Alley Banking in China: the Next Financial Crisis" by Dr. Bashar Malkawi. The piece was originally published in our Academic Commentary section on 9 November 2013. On 7 January 2015, we were advised that the piece was...

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EXTRA: Stand Your Ground Laws and Implicit Bias

EXTRA: Stand Your Ground Laws and Implicit Bias

Andrew Morgan

October 16, 2014 03:18:40 pm

The United States Commission on Civil Rights invited Professor David A. Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law to testify at the Commission's hearing on October 17, 2014. The subject of the hearing is Stand Your Ground...

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G-20 EXTRA ~ Australia PM Rudd on Economy and Climate Change

G-20 EXTRA ~ Australia PM Rudd on Economy and Climate Change

Andrew Morgan

September 30, 2009 06:17:00 pm

Andrew 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...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress passed Posse Comitatus Act against military enforcement of domestic laws

On June 18, 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act. This law made it a felony to willfully use "any part of the Army...to execute the laws" except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or by an act of Congress.

Learn more about the origins of the Posse Comitatus.

U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign SALT II arms limitation treaty

On June 18, 1979, the United States and Soviet Union signed the SALT II nuclear arms limitation treaty. The treaty was part of a series of nuclear arms reduction treaties signed between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. SALT II was preceded by SALT I and followed by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and START II.

Learn more about arms reduction agreements between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. from the Nuclear Threat Initiative.