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The Legal Liability of Air Traffic Controllers
February 2, 2012 - 8184 words | Law and Justice » International Law
The very first air traffic controller was Archie League at Saint Louis Airport in Missouri. His control tower was a wheelbarrow with an umbrella for shade during the summer heat, a notepad and flags. He was instructing the pilot to proceed by raising a checkered flag... Read Article »

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International Law Aviation International Air Law Air Traffic Control Liability
Reassessing the House of Lords: Why the Lords Should Remain Unelected
November 15, 2011 - 3085 words | Political Science » United Kingdom
Since Lord Rosebery’s well-known speech there has been much debate about changes in the composition of the House of Lords. Major reforms included the Life Peerages Act 1958 and later the House of Lords Act 1999, which reduced the hereditary members to 92.[2]... Read Article »

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United Kingdom House Of Lords English Law Appointment Elections Legislature
Debating Genetics as a Predictor of Criminal Offending and Sentencing
November 14, 2011 - 2933 words | Law and Justice » Genetics
Since the beginning of criminological research has been an ongoing debate and disagreement regarding the correlation between genetic characteristics and criminal behavior. There have been numerous studies and experiments conducted to help eliminate some of the unknowns... Read Article »

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Genetics Criminology Sociology Law Justice Crime Punishment
The Legacy of International Cooperation at the Nuremberg Trials
October 4, 2011 - 5877 words | History » World War II
On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case against German defendants in Nuremberg, Germany. The war in Europe had ended only six months earlier, many of the buildings in Nuremberg... Read Article »

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World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Nazis Human Rights Soviet Union Germany Great Britain United States France
Defining Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
April 8, 2011 - 2732 words | Law and Justice » International Law
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved are meant to be active in a situation of an armed conflict or during war. However, just like international law, international humanitarian... Read Article »

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International Law Armed Conflict International Humanitarian Law Jus Ad Bello Just War Theory
The Law of Adoption: A Time for Change
December 2, 2010 - 3302 words | Opinion » Adoption
Adoption is often classified under one umbrella with the assumption that all adoptions are the same. In reality, adoptions are not the same and in some situations are not even similar. Adoption statutes vary by state and individual situations can be affected by the... Read Article »

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Adoption Rights Adoption Adoption Law Child Rearing
Reconsidering Constitutional Theory in the Global Age: Structure, Finance, and Representation
October 7, 2010 - 7646 words | Political Science » Constitutional Theory
We live in a time today similar to the beginning of the 20th century; then, industrial forces were rapidly changing (as seen in the industrial revolution and the rise of the Western nation-state) in ways that parallel our current state of economic transformation. Every... Read Article »

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Constitutional Theory Economics Congress The Senate Corporate Governance Superstructure
The Bush Administration Torture Policy: Origins and Consequences
August 30, 2010 - 5154 words | Law and Justice » George W. Bush Presidency
In March of 2002, US intelligence and law enforcement agents, in collaboration with Pakistani security forces, raided a compound in Faisalabad, Pakistan, where they captured the first “high value detainee” in the War on Terror. Their target, Abu Zubayda... Read Article »

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Bush Administration Torture Policy Torture Us Torture Torture Policy Bush Administration Geneva Conventions Torture Memos
International Law and Nuclear Weapons: Does the Continued Development of Advanced Nuclear Weapons Violate International Law?
January 26, 2010 - 1455 words | International Affairs » Nuclear Weapons
Throughout the twentieth-century, nuclear weapons got deadlier; their range and power have both increased, bringing the potential for greater devastation to the globe. To limit the spread of nuclear weapons, the international community adopted the Non-Proliferation... Read Article »

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International Law Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Non-proliferation Npt Nukes Bunker Buster
The Human Genome and Patient Privacy: A Proposal to Expand Protections for Patients and Family Members
January 21, 2010 - 2824 words | Political Science » Policy Proposals
As medical and biological technology has progressed in recent years, concerns have been raised about the privacy implications of genetic records that can identify individuals and predict future conditions to which they are predisposed. According to the Electronic Privacy... Read Article »

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Healthcare Reform Patient Privacy Healthcare Human Genome Genetic Testing HIPAA
Memorializing Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston
January 11, 2010 - 8537 words | History » Sacco And Vanzetti
‘WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?’ historian Howard Zinn asked a member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society in November 2008. Zinn had just delivered a lecture for the benefit of the Society on ‘The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti’ to a crowd... Read Article »

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Sacco And Vanzetti Public History Defense Committee Boston Legacy Memorializing Memory Gutzon Borglum Aldino Felicani Gardner Jackson Anarchism
Responding to Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: CIDA's Actions in an Evaluative Framework
October 27, 2009 - 6511 words | International Affairs » Congo
At the time of the incident, I was living … in the bush, hiding from the war. One day, I had gone to the fields to collect some food to eat. As I was cultivating, I heard someone screaming loudly and the next minute armed men appeared in front of me. I tried... Read Article »

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Rape War Democratic Republic Of Congo DRC CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
Rezak Hukanovic: Witness and Survivor in The Tenth Circle of Hell
October 26, 2009 - 2865 words | History » Bosnia
The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia, written by Rezak Hukanovic, is one survivor’s account of his experience during the war in former Yugoslavia. In a chronological manner, Hukanovic details events that happened in his native... Read Article »

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Rezak Hukanovic; Tenth Circle Of Hell Human Rights Bosnia Witness And Survivor
 
 

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