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Law professors receive excellent teaching awards
The law school recognizes professors annually and the winners were chosen by a student committee who made their recommendations to the dean. Brown is the recipient of the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award. He teaches criminal law, law and education and
Updated: 04/29/2011 12:37A
Hungarian Gov't Proposes Stronger Criminal Code
Under the proposal those who without authorisation attempt to maintain public law and order by intimidation could receive up to two years in prison, he explained. The proposal to tighten the criminal code has been submitted to Parliament,
Updated: 04/28/2011 10:31P
Activist: Mexico's War on Drugs Leads to Violence Against Women
“Everything that is happening favors violence against women,” Lagarde told Efe Thursday in Madrid, adding that the Mexican leader's strategy “cultivates a very violent culture” and “establishes an ideology of violence, of defeat, of war.
Updated: 04/28/2011 09:05P
Jeff Goldblum - D'onofrio Back On The Beat In Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Actor Vincent D'Onofrio is back on the force after leaving cop show Law & Order: Criminal Intent - he will replace Jeff Goldblum on the 10th season of the drama. Goldblum stepped in to take over from D'Onofrio last year (10) when the actor retired his
Updated: 04/28/2011 08:33P
Woman facing deportation order is charged with running brothel
Charity Ajayioba (35), a failed asylum seeker from Nigeria, who is of no fixed abode, appeared at Dublin District Court yesterday charged under section 11 of the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act for organising, directing and running a brothel,
Updated: 04/28/2011 08:02P
Copyright 'source of great frustration' for US Embassy: Cables
“The combination of first-world release dates, simultaneous bilingual release of movies, sophisticated camera technology, and the lack of anti-camcording laws in the criminal code make the city an appealing first step in the pirating chain.
Updated: 04/28/2011 06:57P
'Law & Order' hits rewind
Law & Order: Criminal Intent returns for what's supposed to be the final season at 9 pm May 1 on USA Network with a ripped-from-the-headlines case and a couple of familiar faces. Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe reprise their roles
Updated: 04/28/2011 06:54P
Private practice by govt doctors no crime: SC
"It would be preposterous, in our view, to hold that if a doctor charges a fee for extending medical help and is doing that by way of his professional duty, the same would amount to illegal gratification as that would be even against plain common sense
Updated: 04/28/2011 06:33P
Need for regional cyber-security pushed in Nuku'alofa
“Measures include criminal law and criminal justice action. Currently, most island states of the Pacific region are not sufficiently equipped to protect their societies against cybercrime through criminal law, nor are they are in a position to engage
Updated: 04/28/2011 06:19P
Plenty of fear-mongering on refugee issue
It's a bad law. False refugee claimants are already deported. And human trafficking is already a serious Criminal Code offence. What this bill does - besides political posturing - is to introduce penalties for legitimate refugees who arrive in a group.
Updated: 04/28/2011 06:10P
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