Word: dockets
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...core of Sudan's strategy is simple. The ICC may only take on cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity if the country where the crimes allegedly occurred doesn't pursue the cases itself. Since the ICC got the Darfur docket in 2005, Sudan has repeatedly assured the outside world - not very persuasively, experts say - that it is trying Darfur atrocities cases itself. The ICC itself remains unconvinced that Ali Kushayb's arrest, or Sudan's prosecution of low-level officials in Darfur, is sincere. "No cases involving serious violations of international humanitarian law have been tried and therefore...
...withdrawn from the council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Robert A. Lue, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, will fill the seat until Jenkins’ return. Additionally, history professor Ann M. Blair confirmed that she will replace Jenkins on the docket committee. Chaired by former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, the committee directs the proceedings of Council meetings and plans the agenda for the meetings of full Faculty. As for the other changes, Susan L. Lively will replace Noel Bisson as the Secretary of the Faculty...
...early ’90s, with Bowers v. Hardwick (the case which upheld the criminalization of sodomy) on the Supreme Court’s Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...
...Council also selected the members of the Docket Committee, which directs the proceedings of Council meetings and plans the agenda for meetings of the full Faculty...
...knows that quorum will be achieved will have an additional incentive to attend when there’s a topic being discussed that’s of interest to that particular Faculty member.” Stock is one of the three members of the Faculty’s docket committee—the body whose duties include overseeing what Professor of German Judith L. Ryan called “the actual process and procedure of the meeting.” The docket committee is charged with monitoring the attendance of FAS meetings at any given time in order...