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South Africa to appeal judgment critical of failure to detain Sudan president

April 8, 2016 12:46:31 PM

The South Africa Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed for leave to appeal the unfavorable judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) concerning the government's failure to detain Sudan President Omar al-Bashir...

March 31, 2016 11:11:19 AM

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of 61 federal drug offenders in an effort to reform the sentencing of non-violent criminals. Obama believes the large number of low-level drug offenders facing longer sentences than would...

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Life—It's Worth a Second Look

February 25, 2016 10:31:25 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel J. Wright of The Law Office of Daniel Wright discusses the need to revisit life without parole sentencing in the US justice system..."No one truly knows a nation," Nelson Mandela wrote, "until one has been inside...

January 28, 2016 01:10:30 PM

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood stated Wednesday that he plans to ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution if the state prohibits lethal injections. States access to...

November 11, 2015 11:38:34 AM

The US Senate on Tuesday approved the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (NDAA ), which is expected to be signed by President Barack Obama despite further delaying the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Section...

August 28, 2015 01:29:42 PM

A Kentucky county clerk on Thursday again denied a same-sex couple's request for a marriage license, despite a federal appeals court order. Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan county, has declined to extend marriage licenses to same-sex couples following...

January 17, 2014 12:18:25 PM

Noeli Serna, Chicago-Kent College of Law

March 26, 2013 11:25:40 AM

Michel Djotodia, leader of rebel forces behind a coup in the Central African Republic (CAR) , declared in a radio address Monday that the country's constitution is dissolved and he is now the nation's leader....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.