Word: law
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Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and a member of CLUM's advisory committee, disagrees with the report and will file a dissenting statement today. Dershowitz declined to comment last night, but sources said that although he acknowledges that B.U. has at times violated student rights, he objected to some of the procedures and conclusions of the investigation...
...three federal court rulings, which allow the government to continue funding school districts that discriminate on the basis of sex in employment. The Court's refusal to review these cases repudiated the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's attempt to use the 1972 amendments to the federal education law to outlaw sex discrimination...
...would not be a justification to exchange an innocent person for the captives, but the case is that there is a large voice claiming that the Shah should be tried according to international norms of jurisprudence. For the sake of the embassy personnel and in the interest of international law, research should be undertaken immediately to study the possibility of recognizing the legitimacy of the Iranian people's claim for a trial, and eventually the possibility of conducting a trial on neutral territory. Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah would be able...
...council had asked that the ordinance be drafted by the end of the year. "We will have our basic approach outlined by Christmas," Balcom said yesterday. "But we have tried to go very slowly and deliberately on this, we are breaking new ground, and writing new law," he added...
...more. Insisting that "there is a definite limit to the number of high quality questions that can be generated," the Association of American Medical Colleges, which tests about 5,000 New York medical school applicants annually, has brought suit challenging the constitutionality of New York's law...