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Commentary The NFL: Tough but not Tough Enough (On Domestic Violence)
The NFL: Tough but not Tough Enough (On Domestic Violence)
Kelly B. Cullen
September 1, 2017 03:45:18 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Shannon Riordan of St. John's University, discusses domestic violence in the NFL ... On February 15, 2014, Ray Rice, a top National Football League (NFL) player for the Baltimore Ravens, was arrested on assault charges, after he...

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Commentary "America First" As Lawless Retreat From National Security
"America First" As Lawless Retreat From National Security
Kelly B. Cullen
August 31, 2017 02:32:14 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, critically analyzes Trump's "America First" foreign policy... "The existence of `system' in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature....Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from...

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Commentary Nine Things You Need to Know about Texas’ New Cyberbullying Law
Nine Things You Need to Know about Texas’ New Cyberbullying Law
Kelly B. Cullen
August 30, 2017 05:44:53 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Attorney Benson Varghese of Varghese Summersett, discusses Texas' new cyberbullying law ... Back in the day, a schoolyard bully was a student’s worst nightmare. Now, it’s cyberbullies that teens fear the most. Not only can cyberbullies...

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Commentary Gagging Attorneys: A Critical Look at the ABA "Anti-Discrimination" Rule
Gagging Attorneys: A Critical Look at the ABA "Anti-Discrimination" Rule
Kelly B. Cullen
July 31, 2017 02:17:38 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Bradley Abramson of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses the new ABA Model Rules and potential first amendment concerns ... The new ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) prohibits attorneys from engaging in "harmful," "derogatory," or "demeaning" speech in any activity...

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Commentary Why "Palestine" Would be a Dangerous Fiction
Why "Palestine" Would be a Dangerous Fiction
Kelly B. Cullen
July 28, 2017 12:45:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the implications of Palestinian statehood under the rubric of International Law... "The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is...

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Commentary Financial Regulators and Dog Piles
Financial Regulators and Dog Piles
Kelly B. Cullen
June 29, 2017 11:59:14 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Julie A. Hill of The University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the Financial Choice Act and duplicative enforcement of financial regulations ... After the L.A. Times revealed that Wells Fargo employees opened millions of unauthorized consumer...

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Commentary International Justice is Blind to the Mutilation of Soldiers
International Justice is Blind to the Mutilation of Soldiers
Kelly B. Cullen
June 13, 2017 03:38:48 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Surya Rajkumar of O.P. Jindal Global University, discusses the prospects of relief for victims of violence in the Kashmir dispute ... On the 1st of May 2017, the mutilated bodies of two personnel of the Indian Border...

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Commentary Iraq after ISIS: Urgent Legal Reforms Needed
Iraq after ISIS: Urgent Legal Reforms Needed
Kelly B. Cullen
May 16, 2017 08:05:46 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Oday T. Mahmood, an S.J.D. candidate for 2019 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses needed legal and constitutional reforms in Iraq post Islamic State... In 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...

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Commentary Australia's Forcible Deportations of  Unwell Asylum Seekers: Legal Obligations
Australia's Forcible Deportations of Unwell Asylum Seekers: Legal Obligations
Kelly B. Cullen
May 10, 2017 04:16:46 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Greg Barns, Lecturer in Jurisprudence RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Anna Talbot, Legal and Policy Adviser Australian Lawyers Alliance discuss the human rights of unwell asylum seekers at the refugee facility on Manus Island... On April 30th,...

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Commentary The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the First World War
Kelly B. Cullen
April 5, 2017 11:01:51 am

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law discusses the constitutional legacy of the First World War... American entry into the First World War one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, generated significant constitutional...

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