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The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights

Book by Howard B. Tolley Jr.; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994

Subjects:

Human Rights, International Commission Of Jurists (1952- ), Rule Of Law

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...a meeting of eminent jurists in 1952; unnamed Americans of German origin interested...Congress." 38 The American Fund for Free Jurists By late 1953 American...bar. 60 The European jurists felt that Americans could be more generous...
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The Project of a Permanent Court of International Justice and Resolutions of the Advisory Committee of Jurists: Report and Commentary

Book by James Brown Scott; The Endowment, 1920

Subjects:

Arbitration, International, Permanent Court Of International Justice

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...2 desired that the jurists called upon to constitute...inspiration from a remarkable American initiative with which...to lose sight of what jurists mean, when, in their...Advisory Committee of Jurists held their first regular...State had instructed the American delegation to the Second...
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The American Revolution

Book by Joseph C. Morton; Greenwood Press, 2003

Subjects:

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Collections: History, Entire Library

The American Revolution Recent Titles in Greenwood...David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler American Railroads in the Nineteenth Century...Reconstruction Claudine L. Ferrell The American Revolution JOSEPH C. MORTON Greenwood...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952

Book by John E. Bassett; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997

Subjects:

American Literature--Southern States--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Authors, American--Homes And Haunts--Southern States, Southern States--In Literature, Southern States--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper...ISBN 0-8386-3642-X (alk. paper) 1. American literature-Southern States-History and...1830-1860 1 Hugh Swinton Legare: "American Literature" (1831) 45 2 James E...
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937

Book by William M. Wiecek; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Jurisprudence--United States--History, Law--United States--Philosophy--History

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...Described Most recent writers on American law take the existence of classicism...element of truth. Classical jurists did organize their thought...consistency. Classi- cal jurists proclaimed a set of beliefs...foremost exponent. But few American lawyers had ever actually read...

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Jurisprudence and Jurists' Prudence: The Iranian-Forum Clause Decisions of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal

Journal article by Ted L. Stein; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 78, 1984

Subjects:

International Relations--Periodicals

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...46-48. See Anns. 15 21 and Exhibit 2. official hostility to Americans who had dealings with the Shahs regime. A thoroughgoing purge...150 This "leader" is empowered to appoint other religious jurists to key positions in the Iranian legal hierarchy. 151 In...
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Jurisprudence and Jurists' Prudence: the Iranian-Forum Clause Decisions of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal

Journal article by Ted L. Stein; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 78, 1984

Subjects:

International Law, International Relations

Collections: Entire Library

...46-48. See Anns. 15 21 and Exhibit 2. official hostility to Americans who had dealings with the Shahs regime. A thoroughgoing purge...150 This "leader" is empowered to appoint other religious jurists to key positions in the Iranian legal hierarchy. 151 In...
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Japan's National/Asian Women's Fund for "Comfort Women"

Journal article by C. Sarah Soh; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 76, 2003

Subjects:

International Commission of Jurists--Investigations, United Nations--Social policy, Women--Crimes against, World War II, 1939-1945--Social aspects

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...at the Smithsonian is one such example from the United States. See Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds., Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age, (Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997). (97) To protect the womens privacy...
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Reconceptualizing Sovereignty in the Americas: Historical Precursors and Current Practices

Journal article by Kathryn Sikkink; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 19, 1997

Subjects:

Democracy--Protection, Human rights--Protection, Sovereignty--Analysis

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...often portrayed. Early Latin American jurists and politicians, renowned for...survey of the writings of Latin American jurists on this topic as a backdrop...51) as were other noted Latin American jurists such as Carlos Calvo and Luis...
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Law's Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues, and Federalism's Multiple Ports of Entry

Journal article by Judith Resnik; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006

Subjects:

Cultural conflict--Laws, regulations and rules, Culture conflict--Laws, regulations and rules, Exceptionalism (Political philosophy)--Laws, regulations and rules, Federalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Immigration policy--Laws, regulations and rules, Judicial review--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...jurisdictions, a custom that American jurists have used throughout our...protection for minorities in the American Constitution to jurists awareness in the 1930s of...the different postures that American jurists take toward non-United States...

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Record Number of Black Chief Justices: Six Jurists Head D.C. and State Supreme Courts

Magazine article by Kevin Chappell; Ebony, Vol. 52, October 1997

Subjects:

African American judges--Practice, State courts--Officials and employees

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...black chief justices: six jurists head D.C. and state supreme...can the progress of African-Americans in the judicial system be...and a mighty foe to African-Americans. The courtroom has been a...important issues. An African-American chief judge is in a unique...
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Liberalism and the Law

Magazine article by Hadley Arkes; New Criterion, Vol. 17, January 1999

Subjects:

Constitutional history--History, Jurisprudence--Practice, Natural law--Analysis

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...that conservative jurists, for the most part...origins of the American law in "natural...that since the American law began with...substance. For the jurists of our own time...That generation of American jurists contained minds...
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Consulting a Living Tradition: Christian Heritage of Marriage and Family

Magazine article by John Witte Jr.; The Christian Century, Vol. 113, November 13, 1996

Subjects:

Canon law--History, Catholic Church--History, Christians--Conduct of life, Churches, Protestant--History, Family--Religious aspects, Marriage--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...early part of this century. leading American jurists still spoke regularly of marriage...liberty and equality within the American family, and to purge it of the...from Christian theologians and jurists. We need to ponder the many enduring...
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The Meaning of Magna Carta since 1215: Ralph V. Turner Considers How and Why Magna Carta Became a Beacon of Liberty in Britain and, Increasingly, in the United States

Magazine article by Ralph V. Turner; History Today, Vol. 53, September 2003

Subjects:

Charters--Evaluation, United Kingdom--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Charter in an 1819 opinion, and American jurists still cannot resist citing it in...hyperbole and distortions of history, jurists references to the Charter indicate...symbol of limited government in American legal and political thought...
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The Meanings of Marriage

Magazine article by John Witte Jr.; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2002

Subjects:

Marriage

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in 1520--Protestant rulers and jurists appropriated much of the traditional...theological foundation for the American law of marriage until well into...for example, one of the leading American jurists of the nineteenth century, wrote...

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Aspiring Jurists Get Brief Brush with the Law: D.C. Forum Gives Teens Close Look at Legal Career

Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, December 11, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Aspiring jurists get brief brush with the...Group, Wendy Shang of the American Bar Association and Jeffery...four area law schools: the American Universitys Washington College...mock-law-school class at American University," says John Powers...
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Republicans out to Impeach 'Activist' Jurists

Newspaper article by Ralph Z. Hallow; The Washington Times, March 12, 1997

Subjects:

DeLay, Tom

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Republicans out to impeach activist jurists by Ralph Z. Hallow House...director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "This is...GOP-controlled Senate," she said. The American Bar Association also expressed concern...
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Former Chief Justice Fernando Passes Away; Jurist's Landmark Decisions Remembered by Colleagues

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on July 25, 1985. In 1976, Fernando was one of three Asian jurists invited by the State Department of the United States to take part in the bicentennial celebration of the American Declaration of Independence. He was appointed associate justice...
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'Mercenary' Witness

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 25, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...been acknowledged even by erudite American jurists who put together the Philippine...Witness Protection Program of the American government. There is more to it...businessmen, political personalities, jurists, military and police officers...
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Steadfast in Truth

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2003

Subjects:

Moore, Roy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...foundation of our law. Are those jurists who oppose Justice Moore acting...the First Amendment gives all Americans the freedom to worship God...staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the...one legal precedent, these jurists threaten our freedom. Religious...

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Livingston

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

LIVINGSTON family of American statesmen, diplomats, and jurists. Robert R. Livingston...through trade with Native Americans, rose quickly to a position...of the colony toward Native Americans; the governors of New York...
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Hand, Learned

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of Appeals (1924 51). Often called the "tenth justice of the Supreme Court," and regarded as one of the finest jurists in American history, Hand delivered more than 2,000 opinions, and was noted especially as a defender of free speech. He is...
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Traynor, Roger John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TRAYNOR, ROGER JOHN 1900 1983, American jurist, b. Park City, Utah, grad. Univ. of California at Berkeley...criminal law. He was one of the most influential and respected jurists of his era. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Supreme Court, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and internment of Japanese-Americans. The 1950s and 1960s: Civil...criticism from conservative jurists and led to attempts in Congress...appointed the first African American, Thurgood Marshall , to the...ed., The Supreme Court in American Life (1986); David M. OBrien...
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International Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...strongly influenced, although not made, by the writings of jurists and publicists, by instructions to diplomatic agents, by important...which, although not ratified, is usually followed. At the Pan-American Congresses, many lawmaking agreements affecting the Western...

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