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The Ever-Changing Legal Landscape of Boston
Brewster: I grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts and attended Northeastern University, studying criminal justice and taking advantage of Northeastern's cooperative education program, which allowed me to have an assignment with the Justice Department.
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:48A
Bad Market Conduct Isn't All Criminal, Holder Says
The Justice Department “will not hesitate to bring prosecutions” where there's evidence of criminal wrongdoing, Holder said. “When we don't, we will continue to use other tools available to us, such as civil sanctions, to hold people and institutions
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:36A
Conflicting laws undercut global cloud's promise, study warns
By Rutrell Yasin A patchwork of conflicting laws and regulations threatens to undercut the full promise of the global cloud computing market, according to a Business Software Alliance study of 24 countries that account for 80 percent of the world's IT
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:34A
Tunisia: charges should be dropped over publication of footballer-girlfriend photo
In pursuing the case, the public prosecutor bypassed a new Press Law which took effect in November 2011, resorting instead to Article 121 of the Penal Code, which criminalises the distribution of printed material that disrupts public order or public
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:31A
ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER SPEAKS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL ON
And some of the practices that have been uncovered have placed unprecedented – and unfair – challenges before cash-strapped governments, local police departments, small businesses, and American workers and consumers. In response, over the last three
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:28A
US Treasurey freezes Japanese crime bosses' assets
It's part of a push to cut organized crime out of the global financial system. He is the godfather of Japan's most powerful mob family; a swaggering, law-scoffing, and always hat-wearing crime syndicate leader. Now 70-year-old Kenichi Shinoda is also a
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:23A
Faculty, Students Publish Article in Law Review
24, 2012 - High Point University students recently collaborated with criminal justice and mathematics faculty members to publish an article in "The Original Law Review," examining the relationship between sentencing practices and geographic region.
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:09A
Proposed amendment to criminal procedure aims at adversarial system
This situation may be about to change, following a proposed amendment to the Code of Criminal Proceedings. If introduced, this amendment would have a significant impact on the prosecution of white collar crimes. The aim of the amendment is to speed up
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:04A
Proposed amendment to criminal procedure aims at adversarial system
This situation may be about to change, following a proposed amendment to the Code of Criminal Proceedings. If introduced, this amendment would have a significant impact on the prosecution of white collar crimes. The aim of the amendment is to speed up
Updated: 02/24/2012 11:04A
Conference on Genocide and Reparations Under Way in Beirut
He also said that the fact that the Genocide Convention had not been written at the time of the Armenian Genocide is irrelevant and that there is no statute of limitations on the act of the illegal killing of people. The State of Turkey and its
Updated: 02/24/2012 10:34A
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