China state secrets system report [HRIC] News
China state secrets system report [HRIC]

State Secrets: China's Legal Labyrinth, Human Rights in China, June 11, 2007 [finding that the state secrets system in the People's Republic of China gives the government virtually complete power to halt the free flow of information and undermines healthy governance and the rule of law]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).