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| [Serkan Yolcu, Uludag University Faculty of Law]: "On Wednesday July 7, 2010, the Turkish media was unexpectedly informed by the press office of Constitutional Court that the Court made its eagerly anticipated judgment on the constitutional amendment package that has been on the agenda for months. After 9.5 hours of debate in only one day, the eleven members of the Court decided to annul a few clauses of some articles of the package. The partially annulled articles rearrange the process of electing members to the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK). The Court annulled the provisions that would have prevented members of the high judiciary ...." [more] |
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| Jonathan Cohen, Pitt Law '12, studied in Jerusalem as part of a program hosted by the Touro College Law Center and sponsored by Pitt's Center for International Legal Education. He writes about the differences between Israel and the United States in the areas of judicial appointments and judicial review... This June, I took courses at the Agron Guest House in the heart of Jerusalem while on a study abroad program hosted by Touro College Law Center. I feel fortunate that I had a group of professors who clung tightly to the idea that "if you don't learn anything outside of the classroom, there is no reason to be in another ...." [more] |
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| JURIST Guest Columnists Valerie Demont and Janaki Rege Catanzarite of Pepper Hamilton LLP discuss the futility of non-compete clauses in India, contending that Indian courts remain sensitive to the possibility that employers may try to use restrictive covenants as a back-door means of restraining employees from exercising their trade and will place an extremely high burden of proof on employers ...." [more] |
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| JURIST Guest Analyst Andreas R. Ziegler is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences and a Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009. His papers are available on SSRN. On 1 December 2009, the Lisbon Treaty ...." [more] |
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| On July 30, 1898, Otto von Bismarck died at age 83 in Germany. Bismarck served as Prime Minister of Prussia until German unification in 1873. He then served as the first Chancellor of the German Empire. Bismarck is perhaps best remembered for engineering the unification of Germany, but he was also responsible for the creation of the German social welfare system. Learn more about Otto von Bismarck....." [more] |
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