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Rutgers-Camden Law Students Provide Legal Services to Domestic Violence Victims
“Domestic violence is relevant to many types of legal practice, ranging from criminal law to family law, personal injury, and immigration law,” says Sally Goldfarb, a professor of law at Rutgers–Camden. “Many of our faculty members work to raise
Updated: 10/25/2011 09:14A
The Criminalization of Abortion is an Abuse of State Power
How are criminal laws used as a tool of the State to infringe upon women and girls' autonomy, dignity, self-determination and decision-making? How do laws and policies related to sexual and reproductive health and rights perpetuate gender inequality
Updated: 10/25/2011 09:06A
Report: US infiltrating Mexican drug cartels
Much about the US' clandestine ties to criminal informants is secret from Mexican officials, out of fear that corrupt elements in Mexican law enforcement and government would jeopardize the operations. Among the targets tracked by cartel informants are
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:59A
The AM Roundup: Olympus Deal, Massey, More
Dow Jones Spying, south of the border: American law enforcement agencies have significantly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country's most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations,
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:30A
Hudson New York
In Germany, the spread of Islamic Sharia law is far more advanced than previously thought, and German authorities are "powerless" to do anything about it, according to a new book about the Muslim shadow justice system in Germany.
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:20A
How the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
domestic spying perpetrated jointly by the government and the telecom industry without the warrants required by the criminal law, an aggressive war waged on another country that killed hundreds of thousands of people, massive financial fraud that
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:09A
Book release: With Liberty and Justice for Some
domestic spying perpetrated jointly by the government and the telecom industry without the warrants required by the criminal law, an aggressive war waged on another country that killed hundreds of thousands of people, massive financial fraud that
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:09A
Prosecutors in Žilina say no law covers bust of Slovak war criminal
Following the unveiling of a bust to the controversial Foreign Affairs Minister of the wartime Slovak state in his home-town of Rajec near Žilina, the police launched criminal prosecution this past summer for the offense of 'support and promotion of
Updated: 10/25/2011 08:03A
Cops end strike by 30 inmates at police stations
Colonel Mohammed Nasser Abdul Razak, Deputy Director, General Department of Criminal Investigation, Dubai Police, said 10 inmates of Ports Station was the first to go on strike early this week, when their demand for outside food and cigarettes were not
Updated: 10/25/2011 07:47A
Report: Iowa Sex Crime Convictions Increasing
Under a state law passed in 2005, after their release from prison the felons are supervised for 10 years or life, depending on the nature of their offenses. The draft of a report by Iowa's Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning says the
Updated: 10/25/2011 07:37A