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Sunday Dialogue: Public Service for Lawyers – New York Times
The legal profession has a monopoly on providing legal services … The writer is a law professor at St. John’s University and co-coordinator of the Consumer Law and Policy Blog. The debate over New York’s new pro bono requirement should … Continue reading
Battles Over Voter ID Laws Intensify – NPR News
The campaign’s new website, www.gottavote.org, helps voters register, lays out legal changes in all … and unethically, political stance against voter ID laws. They say that, as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, Holder instead should …
Stetson law school opens Veterans Law Institute with support services for veterans – St. Petersburg Times
The institute will provide free legal services to active duty military, said Javier Centonzio, a recent law school graduate and Marine … The institute will push for public policy changes on the local, state and federal level that benefit …
Law Professors Agree: Obama Has Executive Power To Provide Relief To Dreamers – hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
As Michael Olivas, Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center said, “It’s never been a question of legal authority. It’s been about political will.”
James Glass: Pre-Civil War home recalls political history of state, nation – Indianapolis Star
He learned law under the tutelage of his uncle and soon became a skilled and successful lawyer with a reputation for thorough research, knowledge of legal precedent and … Pierce and James Buchanan. In political philosophy he was conservative …
Gay married couples look to high court on benefits – Connect
The court did not rule on another provision of the law that says states without same-sex marriage cannot be forced to recognize gay unions performed in states where it is legal. The court also was not asked to address whether … Continue reading
Experiential legal education – Law.com
the Bard is not offering a prescription to improve society but rather is warning that anarchy will reign if there is not a vibrant legal profession protecting cultural, economic and political standards as enumerated by law. This inherent conservatism in … Continue reading
After mistrial in Edwards case, law enforcement official says retrial unlikely – FOX News
But a law enforcement official later told Fox News that it is unlikely the Justice Department would retry Edwards. Emerging from a cloud of legal troubles for the first time in years, the former Democratic presidential candidate gave an …
Defense of Marriage Act appears headed to Supreme Court after appeals court finds law unconstitutional – FOX News
The court didn’t rule on the law’s more politically combustible provision — that states without same-sex marriage cannot be forced to recognize gay unions performed in states where it’s legal. It also wasn’t asked to address whether gay couples …
Suu Kyi demands ‘urgent’ legal reform in Myanmar – DAWN Group
BANGKOK: Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday urged Myanmar’s government to carry out urgent judicial reform to cement recent political progress … Myanmar needed the “rule of law” more than legal safeguards for foreign investors.
