Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution. "Everybody is trampling over everybody else to stake a claim in the oceans." That signals an end to a view that has prevailed for 350 years: the fundamental freedom of the seas. It was first stitched into international law by Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist who wrote in 1609 that the ocean "is common to all, because it is so limitless that it cannot become the possession of anyone." The seas, he concluded, "can be neither seized nor enclosed...
...private." One of Ehrlichman's attorneys, Andrew C. Hall, protested that the judge's charge was too favorable to the prosecution. Beyond that, said Hall, Gesell's "facial expressions and demeanor" during the trial had been harmful to the defense. But the tart-tongued jurist replied that there had not been much of a defense. It had been mainly a matter of "dodging around various issues of the case." Given Gesell's charge, the jury had little choice but to find Ehrlichman guilty of conspiracy...
...Husseini, 80, fanatic former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; of a heart ailment; in Beirut. Haj Amin, whose elfin, almost angelic appearance concealed a wily, often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile by the British. After years...
Most judges have never even seen the institutions where they send criminals for as long as the rest of their lives. Concerned by this distance between jurist and jail, New York State's top judicial administrative board has announced a new rule requiring judges to visit prisons and other detention facilities at least once every four years. The board hopes that getting off the bench and behind the bars - sensitivity training of sorts - will "strengthen the understanding judges have of facilities and institutions to which they send individuals." That may well be true, but one great psychological gap will...
Judge Gerhard A. Gesell's scalding lectures to James St. Clair are typical of the outspoken jurist's conduct on the bench. A Yale Law School graduate (1935) and longtime Washington attorney in both private and Government practice, Gesell, a Democrat, was appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He generally takes a libertarian line and has been a tart critic of Government wiretapping, restrictive anti-abortion laws and the Nixon Administration's mass arrests during the 1971 May Day antiwar demonstrations. Noted for facing judicial issues headon, Gesell has been both helpful...