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Law school fuzzy grad jobs stats: A federal offense?
"Again and again, people talk about gaming the law school rankings," says Shepherd. "But if gaming means publishing false or deceptive information, law schools that do this could face civil or even criminal liability."" Cloud and Shepherd say US News
Updated: 03/16/2012 10:23A
Crimes of Sexual Violence and the Lubanga Case
Interview with Patricia Viseur Sellers, international criminal lawyer, former Legal Advisor for Gender and a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Despite the evidence pointing to wide spread rape and other
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:40A
Suffering man's wish to end it highlights the dilemma of law
Devlin's precedent was based on intention, which is paramount in criminal law. Medical practice is based on necessity - the necessity to relieve suffering, and sometimes end-of-life suffering will only end with the death of the patient.
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:35A
Is China's Legal System Getting Safer for Multinationals?
When it comes to criminal law, the problems are more substantial: access to lawyers is often limited or non-existent. Again there are some tentative signs of reform, such as the decision in 2007, by the Supreme Court to review all death penalties,
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:21A
Just Say No to Deferred Prosecution in Gulf Oil Spill Criminal Case
Uhlmann is the former chief of the Department's Environmental Crimes Section. And he's currently a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. “The Justice Department should not enter deferred prosecution or non-prosecution agreements with the
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:18A
Swiss will follow if Pakistan removes presidential immunity: lawyer
When asked what would happen if Pakistan requested of Swiss to probe these cases under the Swiss under penal laws, Mr. Micheli replied that “that's legally possible. There is a question of opportuneness. The centre of gravity of various cases we have
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:09A
Swiss will follow if Pakistan removes presidential immunity: lawyer
When asked what would happen if Pakistan requested of Swiss to probe these cases under the Swiss under penal laws, Mr. Micheli replied that “that's legally possible. There is a question of opportuneness. The centre of gravity of various cases we have
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:09A
SALAZAR v. STATE
HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.121(a), (b)(4) (West 2010). After assessing punishment at five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Institutional Division, the trial court suspended the sentence and placed Salazar on community supervision
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:06A
SALAZAR v. STATE
HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.121(a), (b)(4) (West 2010). After assessing punishment at five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Institutional Division, the trial court suspended the sentence and placed Salazar on community supervision
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:06A
RICHARD v. STATE
Upon appellant's plea of "true" to two prior felony convictions alleged for enhancement purposes, the jury assessed his punishment at confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for a term of seventy years.
Updated: 03/16/2012 09:06A
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