Krista Grobelny

Impact of the New Abortion Act Passed by the US House of Representatives

February 15, 2017 10:42:59 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist, Yvonne Lindgren, of Indiana Tech law School discusses the implications of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017" and how it will affect poor women and women of color...On January...

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The Emergence of Evidence Opens the Door for Another Lawsuit by Bosnia and Herzegovina Against Serbia

Krista Grobelny

February 6, 2017 12:55:26 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the implications of revising a lawsuit between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia...According to the former prosecutor of The Hague International Criminal Court...

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Antitrust and the Mylan Conspiracy

Krista Grobelny

January 15, 2017 10:15:59 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Daryl Lim of The John Marshall School of Law discusses the implications and predictions of the recent Mylan investigations after 20 US states file lawsuits...In an age of divisive politics, there has been a surprising amount of...

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What the Federal Court Decision Against Blanket Drug Testing Means for Students

Krista Grobelny

January 7, 2017 12:45:02 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Reid T. Murdoch, Esq., Board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, analyzes a major Eighth Circuit ruling prohibiting blanket drug testing of college students...Blanket drug testing of college students is officially unconstitutional, a US Court of...

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Actually, We Can't Just All Get Along—Cooperation and Individualization under IDEA

Krista Grobelny

December 5, 2016 04:50:13 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Karen Czapanskiy of the University of Maryland Francis King Cary School of Law discusses the road not taken in the recent Supreme Court case on in-school service dogs for special needs children... In Fry v. Napoleon Community...

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Fatal Attraction&#8212The International Criminal Court and Politics

Krista Grobelny

November 30, 2016 09:27:46 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane of Syracuse University College of Law discusses the need for the International Criminal Court to utilize politics to ensure its future...Several years ago, I gave a speech where I stated that prosecutor who does...

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China's New Cybersecurity Law is a Call to Action for Congress

Krista Grobelny

November 26, 2016 07:29:22 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the effects of a new Chinese cybersecurity law and the need for response by the US Congress...China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress...

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Criminalizing Visual Poverty&#8212the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime

Krista Grobelny

November 21, 2016 02:24:38 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Sara Rankin of Seattle University School of Law discusses the effects of criminalizing homelessness in the US...As a lawyer, I am particularly interested in how we take our impulses and fears and codify them into our laws...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott

On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation. Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Stalin born

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. In 1922, he became leader of the USSR until his death in 1953. During his time as Soviet dictator, Stalin industrialized his country, which he then led to become one of the world's two superpowers after WWII. Through his infamous purges, show trials and nationwide famines, Stalin also became responsible for millions of deaths.