Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh… Kristine Long Rather fortuitously, I was able to go with Professor Ron Brand, Director of the [...]
Researchers in Sarajevo on Tuesday unveiled a Google Earth tool mapping the sites of war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian genocide . The Bosnian war crimes atlas was compiled by the Research and Documentation Center (RDC) , a Sarajevo-based research organization tasked with collecting data regarding the events of the three-year conflict. RDC director [...]
HR 3817, US House of Representatives, passed November 4, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Radovan Karadzic.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Pottawattamie County v. McGhee , the Court heard arguments on whether a prosecutor may be subjected to a civil trial and potential damages for a wrongful conviction and incarceration where the prosecutor allegedly (1) violated a criminal defendant's "substantive due process" rights by [...]
Judge Oscar Magi of the Fourth Chamber of the Court of Milan on Wednesday convicted 23 former CIA agents for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. The nearly three-year trial, which was delayed many times, is the first in the world involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition flights . [...]
Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq… As an Iraqi lawyer and US law student, I often check some of the Iraqi websites meant to inform people about draft laws being put before the Iraqi Parliament. One day, I was reading through [...]
Todd Carpenter : "Last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued a ruling overturning a lower court on whether file metadata must be turned over in a public records request. The ruling essentially binds the inherent file metadata within the file itself. In its finding, the court ruled that the plaintiff's request for the administrative [...]
Ohio voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, commonly referred to as Issue 2. The purpose of the board will be to maintain food safety, encourage locally grown and raised food, and protect Ohio farms and families. The measure will amend the Ohio Constitution and prevent groups [...]
Voters in Maine on Tuesday approved an expansion of the state's existing medical marijuana laws by a 59 to 41 percent margin , with 87 percent of precincts reporting. The proposed legislation, Question 5 on the Maine ballot, will allow for increased access to medical marijuana through dispensaries, and will increase the number of ailments [...]
New York voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday amending the state constitution to allow the state legislature to pass a law permitting prisoners to work with non-profit organizations on a voluntary basis. Prisoners previously participated in work programs with non-profit organizations, but a 2005 opinion issued by the Commission of Correction indicated that the practice [...]
