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In the Limelight: Law and Order's Linus Roache
This season, Law and Order was looking for a way to get some new energy and interest in the long-running NBC Emmy-winning series, so on the judicial end of the show, they promoted Sam Waterson's Jack McCoy to DA and cast Linus Roache as ...
Evangelicalism and the Reformed View of the Law
At Pulpit Magazine, Nathan Busenitz is tackling the question of the relations between the NT believer and the Mosaic Law. Tommy Myrick kindly pointed me to the post and I thought it would be useful for an evangelical audience, ...
Pre-law List = Bad
A while ago, I signed up for a Pre-law school email list here at the university. Since then, I haven’t received too many emails, but the ones I have received have irritated me for one major reason: I can’t go to any of the events they ...
Law Mentoring Program Puts Pirates On Trial
February 18, 2008 - Even Captain Jack Sparrow can’t escape the scales of justice when the UVic Faculty of Law students put him and fellow pirates on trial as part of their “Law for All” mentoring program running all this week for local ...
WWF chairman, former Interior Secretary to speak at Vermont Law School
Babbitt's address, which will mark the start of the two-day symposium, will be delivered at 4 pm at Vermont Law School's Jonathon B. Chase Community Center. His address will be followed by a panel discussion and reception. ...
Virtual Law: Gaining Ground in Both Real and Virtual Worlds
While researching articles discussing virtual worlds (including both Internet-based games and social networking spaces) I came across an upcoming conference on virtual law. The Virtual Law 2008 Conference is being held April 3 - 4, ...
Two Strange Orders in the Wikileaks Case
Assuming that the information was in fact stolen, one has to admit that the case law relating to the retention of stolen documents is confusing: on the one hand the law clearly allows the owner to demand their return. On the other hand, ...
‘Kids and Cars’ to Soon Become Law
This week Congress approved a piece of auto safety legislation popularly known as the Kids and Cars Act, which President Bush is expected to sign into law. While hailed by both parties, the law is largely toothless and more of a ...
Law Library of Congress Adds RSS
The Library of Congress’s Law Library of Congress now offers RSS Feeds on the following topics: News & Events, Research Reports, Webcasts, and Global Legal Monitor. The “Research Reports” feed, for example, includes such topics as “How ...
Iraq oil law stalled, no end to impasse in sight
BAGHDAD, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A law that could shape Iraq's future by clearing the way for investment in its oil fields is deadlocked by a battle for control of the reserves and no end to the impasse is in sight, lawmakers and officials ...