Commentaries by James B. Jacobs

Louisiana's Designation of Anti-Police Bias as a Hate Crime Category

June 20, 2016 12:06:12 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist James B. Jacobs of New York University School of Law discusses the recent changes to hate crimes in Louisiana... Federal and state hate crime laws enhance criminal punishment for offenders motivated by certain widely condemned biases, the...

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UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires

On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.

Martin Luther King Jr. born

On January 15, 1929, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University and read King's 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech made at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.