LexisNexis UK ( http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk ), a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced the U.K. premiere of 'Not My Life', a documentary filmed on five continents over four years that illustrates the multibillion...
By: Robin Perry Legal Officer, Human Rights Branch, Australian Attorney-General's Department. The views expressed in this paper are entirely my own and should not in any way be attributed to the Attorney-General's Department. Special thanks...
By: David Weissbrodt, Joseph C. Hansen, and Nathaniel H. Nesbitt David Weissbrodt , Regents Professor and Fredrikson & Byron Professor, University of Minnesota Law School. The author thanks Maleeha Rizwy for her assistance on this article. ...
By John Reynolds University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Class of 2011. The author would like to thank his family, friends, and colleagues for their support. This note is dedicated to the victims of human trafficking. Excerpt 34...
By: Dana Weiss and Ronen Shamir Dana Weiss (LL.M, LL.B) is a practicing attorney with Libai, Mann & Co., Advocates & a doctoral student of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. The authors...
U.S. Deportation, Integrity, and the Rule of Law By: Daniel Kanstroom Daniel Kanstroom is a professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Program at Boston College Law School. Excerpt - 35 Fletcher F. World Aff. 95 ...
By: Micaela Tucker Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Vermont Excerpt from Guanxi!"-"Gesundheit!" An Alternative View on the "Rule of Law" Panacea in China, 35 Vt. L. Rev. 689 Introduction ...
A new Rule of Law (ROL) Index issued June 13 by the World Justice Project (WJP) reports that, among other key findings, the U.S. trails behind Europe in terms of adherence to the rule of law. The WJP ROL Index offers a comprehensive picture of the...
By: Marat Almaganbetov, LexisNexis Russia Head of Business development In our blog we tell about International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg (Russia). We talk to Yevgeny Tarlo, doctor of law, professor, Russian senator. Marat Almaganbetov :...
В блоге LexisNexis мы рассказываем о Международном юридическом форуме, который прошел в Санкт-Петербурге (Россия). Евгений Тарло , сенатор, доктор юридических наук, профессор отвечает на наши вопросы. - Доктор Тарло, в рамках форума прошел...
Human Rights Now , Amnesty International's blog, yesterday described its involvement in the Universal Periodic Review of the United States conducted by the UN Human Rights Council. Although non-governmental organizations such as AI are not allowed...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Local, state and federal law enforcement officers in Nashville, Tenn., Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., on Monday began arresting 29 individuals who were listed in a federal indictment which was unsealed listing various charges,...
DAYTON, Ohio - It is conservatively estimated that one in every 555 people in the world is a victim of human trafficking, LexisNexis' senior advisor on Corporate Responsibility said June 30 at a webinar for employees at the LexisNexis campus here...
Two similar recent cases by courts construing and applying the Alien Tort Statute demonstrate that courts will strictly apply the recent pleading standards set forth by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, but that if those standards can be met, the...
Is it compassionate to release a terminally ill terrorist who has been convicted of killing hundreds of civilians by blowing their airplane out of the sky? That’s the position taken by the Scottish government when it decided to release Pan Am Flight...
Secretary of State Clinton: Fight Human Trafficking Now Highlighting the 2001 murder of the 20-year-old Russian woman, Oksana Rantchev, in Cyprus while trying to escape her captors, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in an op-ed piece...