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Commentary Everyone Benefits From Religious Liberty Protections
Everyone Benefits From Religious Liberty Protections
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
May 7, 2015 04:20:01 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Lorence of Alliance Defending Freedom discusses the benefits of religious freedom to liberty protections ... Listening carefully to objections to state religious freedom laws, two assumptions emerge that are demonstratively false. Those who assert them...

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Commentary The Aftermath Of A Leak: What's Next in the HSBC Suisse Tax Evasion Saga?
The Aftermath Of A Leak: What's Next in the HSBC Suisse Tax Evasion Saga?
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
May 7, 2015 11:09:27 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Shu-Yi Oei of Tulane University Law School discusses tax evasion investigations and possible criminal charges against HSBC's Swiss private banking unit...Beginning around 2006, Hervé Falciani, a computer systems engineer at HSBC's Swiss private banking unit, HSBC Private...

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Commentary Dignity in Life as in Death
Dignity in Life as in Death
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
May 3, 2015 06:03:24 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutgers School of Law-Camden, discusses the controversy over whether there should or must be a constitutional right allowing the terminally-ill to engage in physician assisted deaths ..."Despite decades of agitation, public education, lobbying and...

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Commentary Bankruptcy Courts Are No Longer Courts of Equity
Bankruptcy Courts Are No Longer Courts of Equity
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
May 1, 2015 02:46:47 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne of UCLA School of Law discusses the role of bankruptcy courts in equity... Bankruptcy law, embodied in Title 11 of the United States Code (also known as "the Bankruptcy Code"), strives to balance the rights...

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Commentary The Methods to the Madness: The Electric Chair, Lethal Injection and Now Nitrogen Gas
The Methods to the Madness: The Electric Chair, Lethal Injection and Now Nitrogen Gas
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
April 30, 2015 08:17:58 am

JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment... Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on...

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Commentary Aaron Hernandez, OJ Simpson and the Evolution of Justice for the NFL?
Aaron Hernandez, OJ Simpson and the Evolution of Justice for the NFL?
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
April 26, 2015 05:24:02 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory S. Gordon, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, discusses the similarities and differences between the Aaron Hernandez and OJ Simpson trials and the potential implications for future criminal cases ... On April...

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Commentary A Tale of Two Liberties: Indiana's Religious Freedom Laws and Implications beyond Marriage Equality
A Tale of Two Liberties: Indiana's Religious Freedom Laws and Implications beyond Marriage Equality
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
April 22, 2015 03:37:55 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremiah A. Ho of the University of Massachusetts School of Law, discusses the amended Indiana "religious freedom" bills and marriage equality issues in the US... Despite a gaining momentum for extending marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide,...

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Commentary California's Water Restriction and Its Beneficial Incentives
California's Water Restriction and Its Beneficial Incentives
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
April 21, 2015 09:48:22 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Griffen Thorne, Student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discusses water use restrictions in the State of California ... On April 1, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown issued Executive Order B-29-15 ("EO"), which mandates...

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Commentary Polish Soldiers Acquitted of War Crimes for Nangar Khel Incident
Polish Soldiers Acquitted of War Crimes for Nangar Khel Incident
justia.admin - Stanford University - San Francisco, California
April 20, 2015 09:18:48 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Milena Sterio of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law discusses the recent acquittal of Polish soldiers connected to the incident at Nangar Khel ... In a recent ruling, a Warsaw military court acquitted four Polish soldiers of war crimes...

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