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Commentary Why Boumediene Was Wrongly Decided
Why Boumediene Was Wrongly Decided
JURIST Staff
February 27, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the recent ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on habeas-stripping under the Military Commissions Act was erroneous and is...

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Commentary Rethinking Rule of Law Efforts in Iraq
Rethinking Rule of Law Efforts in Iraq
JURIST Staff
February 26, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern, Assistant Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY, discusses the evolution of rule of law challenges in Iraq post-2003 and proposes new criteria for achieving and assessing Iraq's status as a...

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Commentary Northern Rights: Canada's Supreme Court Rules on Indefinite Detentions
Northern Rights: Canada's Supreme Court Rules on Indefinite Detentions
JURIST Staff
February 23, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Kent Roach of the University Toronto Faculty of Law says the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling that security certificates for the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects are unconstitutional may help propel new Canadian anti-terror legislation, although...

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Commentary Military Commissions: War Crimes Courts or Tribunals of Convenience?
Military Commissions: War Crimes Courts or Tribunals of Convenience?
JURIST Staff
February 21, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, and JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen,...

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Commentary Russian Harassment of Defense Lawyers Must Not be Tolerated
Russian Harassment of Defense Lawyers Must Not be Tolerated
JURIST Staff
February 19, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing new money laundering charges, says that if the rule...

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Commentary The Legal Case Against War With Iran
The Legal Case Against War With Iran
JURIST Staff
February 13, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the United States today has no legal basis to use significant armed force against Iran, and that another unlawful war in the wake of the Iraq debacle...

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Commentary Putin Lays Down the Law But Misses the Point
Putin Lays Down the Law But Misses the Point
JURIST Staff
February 10, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Vladimir Putin's insistence on the illegality of using force abroad without UN authorization may be technically correct, but it irresponsibly undercuts new interpretations of international law allowing...

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Commentary Rising Sun? Amending the 'Pacifist' Japanese Constitution
Rising Sun? Amending the 'Pacifist' Japanese Constitution
JURIST Staff
February 7, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Kenneth Port of William Mitchell College of Law says that the looming amendment of Japan's so-called "pacifist" constitution to overtly allow greater Japanese military involvement in world affairs may prove to be one of the more tragic...

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Commentary Apologizing to Maher Arar: A Beginning, Not an End
Apologizing to Maher Arar: A Beginning, Not an End
JURIST Staff
February 2, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty, vice-chair and counsel to the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations and a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School York University in Toronto where he also practices law, says that Canadian Prime Minister...

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Commentary The Responsibility to Protect in Iraq: Re-deploying to Save Lives
The Responsibility to Protect in Iraq: Re-deploying to Save Lives
JURIST Staff
January 30, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that a US troop surge in Iraq could provoke the very atrocities its supporters claim it would...

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Sewing machine patented

On September 10, 1846, United States patent number 3640 was awarded to Elias Howe for his sewing machine. In 1854, Howe brought legal action against Isaac Singer, because he alleged Singer's machine infringed upon the patent. Howe won the case and was awarded royalties from the Singer sewing machines.
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Last French execution by guillotine

On September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, became the last person executed by guillotine in France.

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