Commentaries by Oday Talal Mahmood

Toward the Effective Judicial Review in Iraq

April 6, 2018 03:00:08 pm

JUIRST Guest Columnist Oday Talal Mahmood of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the potential implications of judicial review in Iraq....In Iraq's Constitution of 2005, more than 67 of the 144 Articles include the language: "shall be regulated...

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Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia

On November 17, 1989, riot police put down student protests against the communist government in Czechoslovakia. The incident started a series of non-violent protests that finally forced the communists from power two weeks later.

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President Nixon declared 'I'm not a crook'

On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon defended his actions in the Watergate affair, urging the nation to put Watergate behind it and telling a press conference "I'm not a crook."