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US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity

August 8, 2014 08:12:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses the ongoing conflict in Gaza ... By sending vast amounts of military aid to Israel, members of the US Congress, President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama...

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Sistani and the Jihad

July 3, 2014 07:36:00 PM

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses Grand Ayatollah Sisani's call for jihad against ISIS in Iraq ... As has been widely discussed, Grand Ayatollah Sistani recently issued a call for jihad...

June 30, 2014 10:57:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses some of the possible implications of the Supreme Court's recent decision on cell phone searches ... In one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings ever handed...

June 14, 2014 10:32:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz of the Seton Hall University School of Law discusses some of the lessons offered by the Bergdahl exchange as they relate to US policy on Guantanamo ... The Obama administration has confirmed that it will...

April 6, 2014 03:40:00 PM

Leonard Baynes & David Gregory, St. John's University School of Law

March 10, 2014 12:00:00 AM

Stoyan Panov, University of Birmingham Law School

February 17, 2014 12:27:39 AM

David Crane, Syracuse University College of Law

January 15, 2014 02:32:03 PM

Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

December 22, 2013 01:59:10 PM

Sujitha Subramanian, Bristol University School of Law

December 7, 2013 12:00:00 PM

Michael Kelly, Creighton University School of Law

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Hitler and Nazis attempt failed coup in Beer Hall Putsch

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted an ill-faited coup in Munich, Germany on November 8, 1923. Instead of seizing power, the conspirators suffered 15 casualties and their leaders were arrested, including Hitler. The future dictator would spend a year in prison as a result, where he would write his infamous Mein Kampf. Learn more about the Beer Hall Putsch.

Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide

On November 8, 1994, Oregon passed the Death With Dignity Act by voter initiative, becoming the first US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Read the Death With Dignity Act,

France government opens the Louvre as a public museum

On November 8, 1793, the revolutionary government in France opened the Louvre for the first time as a public museum. Learn more about the history of the Louvre.