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During the last five decades, an international legal basis for space activities was built up. It was established in the United Nations through its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Legal Subcommittee, which contributed to the progressive development of international law in a special field of outer space. The present system of space law now comprises the UN Space Treaties and Principles, other international space agreements and also national laws, which complete international norms by national regulations of activities performed under the jurisdiction of individual States.
Lecture Series - Mr. Vladimir Kopal
Malum in se - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malum in se (plural mala in se ) is a Latin phrase meaning wrong or evil in itself . The phrase is used to refer to conduct assessed as sinful or inherently wrong by nature, independent of regulations governing the conduct. It is distinguished from malum prohibitum , which is wrong only because it is prohibited. For example, most human beings believe that murder, rape, and theft are wrong, regardless of whether a law governs such conduct or where the conduct occurs, and is thus recognizably malum in se .
Kudos to Daniel Chow and Mike Koehler for a wonderful conference last week at Ohio State Law School addressing the FCPA at thirty-five. It’s always a risk to hold a conference that mingles hard-core practitioners with soft and fuzzy academics, but this one seemed to work. The defense and prosecution side of the FCPA bar battled it out with competing panels addressing the merits and demerits of FCPA prosecutions.
Opinio Juris
The Wall Street Journal national security reporting team, followed closely by the Washington Post and the AP, have been reporting in the last couple of days on the CIA being tasked to carry out an expanded Predator drone targeted killing program in Yemen. I’ve been meaning to blog on this, following on Deborah’s post below discussing the AP story, but meanwhile Robert Chesney poses the following question over at the Lawfare blog (where you can find links to these articles and an expanded discussion): [W]hat really struck me about the stories was their common reference to a particular legal argument.
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The Yale Law Journal Online - The Yale Law Journal
**This Essay is part of a Yale Law Journal Online series called " Summary Judgment ," featuring short commentaries on recent Supreme Court cases.** Federal agencies play a dominant role in administering federal statutory schemes. At the front lines, they are tasked with interpreting statutes, enacting regulations to implement federal programs, and enforcing federal directives. During the course of adjudication or rulemaking, federal agencies are sometimes called upon to determine whether state law conflicts with federal law.
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Professors Michael Wishnie and Muneer Ahmad talk about Yale Law School's Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic's involvement representing Latino residents arrested beginning in 2007 and continuing through a recent settlement with the federal government.
Yale Law School Sculptural Ornamentation
One of the gems of Yale's architectural heritage is the sense of humour imparted by James Gamble Rogers, the architect (and Yale graduate) who designed many of Yale's neo-Gothic treasures in the inter-war period. Throughout the Yale campus, one may find hilarious little sculptural treasures ornamenting the otherwise serious and foreboding Gothic buildings. The contrast between the heaviness of the revered Gothic style and Rogers' quirky embellishments makes a walk through the campus a delight, as startling little revelations are found in the many nooks and crannies. The Yale Law School, in particular, boasts a number of sculptic oddities, like the series of faces above: the killer, the thief, the cop, and the judge. [click pictures for larger images]
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History News Network | Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
HNN Roundtable: Do Democrats Have a Double Standard for Obama? Are liberal Democrats compromising their principles by supporting President Obama, despite the centrist positions he has taken on some partisan issues? This is precisely the kind of question that is far more difficult for a historian to answer than, say, a journalist. Historians, by definition, work with the benefit of years or decades of hindsight, and this is the type of issue about which reasonable people could change their minds within the course of a few months.
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REDRAWING THE MAPS: Redistricting, Race, & Representation in the Next Decade On January 28th, 2012, the Levin Center at Stanford Law School hosted "REDRAWING THE MAPS: Redistricting, Race, and Representation in the Next Decade". The event brought together academics, practitioners, and law students and featured a keynote address by Angelo Ancheta, Commissioner of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission
SLS News | Law Professors Urge Congress to Reject PROTECT-IP Act
Letter asking Congress to reject the PROTECT-IP bill (PDF) Over 100 professors who teach and write about intellectual property, Internet law, innovation, and the First Amendment are urging the members of Congress to reject the PROTECT-IP Act of 2011 (S. 968) . The bill would give the government sweeping authority to take websites offline, remove websites from search engines, and bring infringement claims against Internet publishers. The professors have signed onto a letter written by Stanford Law School’s Mark A. Lemley , the William H. Neukom Professor of Law and director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology; David Levine , assistant professor of Law at Elon University School of Law and an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS); and David Post , professor of law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.International blogs
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In Africa Burundi: In 2008 and 2009, the DPKO -led mission, BINUB launched two trainings for judges and prosecutors on professional ethics and court management and administration.
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VolokhC Activism, Deference, and Judicial Engagement: (Clark Neily (Institute for Justice), guest-blogging) Last fall I ... bit.ly/HCLcKD yesterday · reply · retweet · favorite