Joshua Katz : "The Libertarian Party of Connecticut joined with the state's Green Party to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the state's Citizens' Election Program. We maintained that this program was...
INFORMED ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Court ruling against Connecticut campaign finance law helps level political playing field
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Thailand judiciary further discredits itself with harsh lese majesty sentence against protestor
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Government laptop border searches a slippery slope to accessing citizens’ electronic communications
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DC Circuit's ruling in Comcast case properly eliminated outdated market control limits for cable companies
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Reforming Criminal Procedure in France
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KindHearts ruling exposed Treasury Department's unconstitutional freezing of Muslim charity assets
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Controversy over judges’ asset disclosure forces Indian Supreme Court to place information online
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Laptop searches at the US border implicate legitimate Fourth Amendment concerns
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LATVIA: Constitutional Jurisprudence and International Precedent
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Lockerbie bomber’s release an effort to ease political tensions and avoid damaging appeal
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Awzar Thi : "A court in Thailand inched closer to its counterparts in neighboring Burma last week when it sentenced an anti-coup protestor to 18 years in prison. The Bangkok criminal court convicted Daranee...
Barry Steinhardt : "Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have a legitimate power to search for contraband goods crossing national borders. But searching laptops is not a search of goods. It is a search of a storehouse...
Christopher Huther and Jeremy Keim : "On August 28, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion in Comcast Corporation v. FCC, which vacated the FCC's...
JURIST Special Guest Columnists Judith Sunderland and William Bourdon of Human Rights Watch say that the French government needs to ensure that all suspects in police custody have the right to see a lawyer immediately, have access to a lawyer...
Sahar Aziz : "A recent ruling by a federal district court signifies an encouraging shift for Muslim charities in the United States. For many such non-profits, mere investigation by the Department...
Prashant Bhushan : "The issue of asset disclosure of judges in India arose out of a Right to Information Application filed by one Subhash Agarwal with the Supreme Court seeking to know if judges...
John Wesley Hall, Jr. : "This fiscal year, through August 11, 2009, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tells us that there were about 1,000 laptop computer searches, only 46 of which were...
Anna Mandel, Boston College Law '11, writes about her experience at the Latvian Constitutional Court.... In the United States, state and federal courts are not bound by the precedents or laws of other jurisdictions. For example, the Supreme Court of...
George Joffé : "Despite all the fulmination, protest and anger, the return of Abdelbasset al-Maghrahi to Libya draws a definite line under what has proved to be a very worrisome case —...
