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Let’s talk UN War Crimes Tribunal. Thoughts? The UN War Crimes Tribunal has said it’s ready for the extradition of Radovan Karadžic from Belgrade. Karadžic was, of course, a war crimes fugitive captured earlier this year by Yugoslavian authorities. A Belgrade court is currently considering extraditing him to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. On [...] “It’s for the kids.” Ah, yes. The great justification for just about any government program. Of course, it’s the central justification in most states for the Lottery. Revenues are directed into the education department’s coffers for use in schools. That’s all fine and good, but the agreement the ticket purchaser enters into with the state [...] In light of our discussion on the FLDS case, Christopher suggested a thread on the origins of law. I liked that idea and have a few drafts started. But it struck me that it might work better as a series of questions that pull out various views of the law and its role (or source) [...] Here’s a question for you: should someone who requests the death penalty be prohibited from receiving it? From Friday’s New York Times: [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed], the former senior operations chief for Al Qaeda, said he would represent himself and dared the Guantánamo tribunal to put him to death. “This is what I want,” he told a military judge [...] We had an okay class discussion about tort reform recently in Torts. (At this point in the semester I think we’re all too exhausted for a heated or animated debate on the topic.) It amuses me that the words “tort reform” are always put in quotes in our casebook – and even in the way it [...] In a RICO case, Judge Posner opined on the post-Twombly standard on motions to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). (H/T How Appealing) The case involved an allegation that a municipal government had pre-empted their efforts at building a marina on their land by conspiring in a “continuing violation” of the RICO statute. The trial judge [...] This week I made a mistake – the second time I’ve made it really. In a way, we opened this blog to goof off. I wanted to improve my web design skills and write about this all-consuming experience I was having. After putting up version 1.0 of the design, I found friends wanted to join in [...] |
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