Webby Awards announce Law category winners News
Webby Awards announce Law category winners

The annual Webby Awards [awards website] in Law and more than 100 other subject categories were announced in New York Monday as the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences [professional website] honored excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet in 2015. Harvard Law project Perma.cc took the judges’ Webby, and the People’s Voice [websites] award, decided by online popular vote, went to legal resource site Cooley GO [website]. JURIST was last nominated for a Webby in 2009 and 2008 [JURIST reports] and was also named an Official Honoree in the Students category [awards website] in 2008. JURIST won the People’s Voice Award as the best Law website in 2006 and in 2007 was named an Official Honoree [JURIST reports].

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Dreyfus convicted of treason

On December 22, 1894, Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial trial that prompted worldwide allegations of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was later cleared. Learn more about the case of Alfred Dreyfus and read an English translation of the famous public letter J'Accuse...! by novelist and Dreyfus partisan Emile Zola.

US passed Embargo Act, banning foreign trade

On December 22, 1807, the Embargo Act was passed at the urging of US President Thomas Jefferson. The act barred trade with any foreign nations in an effort to avoid American entry into the Napoleonic Wars of Europe. However, the act proved unenforceable and was replaced with the Non-Intercourse Act, which barred trade with France and Great Britain. Learn more about the Embargo Act of 1807 from Monticello.org