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News & Analysis as of May 23, 2013

Higher Education Oversight and Governance: Role of a College Board of Trustees

The Impact Of The Supreme Court’s Recent Decision In Clapper v. Amnesty International USA On Privacy and Data-Security Litigation

by Edward Boyle, David Cinotti, Emilio W. Cividanes, Thomas Gilbertsen, Stuart P. Ingis, Joeann Walker | Venable LLP on 3/6/2013

On February 26, 2013, the Supreme Court decided Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, which clarified the standard to establish Article III standing for claims based on impending or future harm. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4...more

OBLIGATION IGNORED: WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW REQUIRES THE UNITED STATES TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CIVIL LEGAL AID, WHAT THE UNITED STATES...

by Zach Zarnow on 12/25/2011

Exploring international legal obligations to provide civil legal aid, assessing U.S. compliance, and suggesting improved civil legal aid through the use of Legal Empowerment techniques that have been successful in other...more

Material Support Laws: Combating Terrorism or Terrorizing Peace?

by Gammon & Grange, P.C. on 7/16/2010

Alternatively hailed as a bulwark in our nation's war on terrorism and denounced as a descent into a new era of McCarthyism, the Supreme Court's June 21, 2010 decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project could have a...more