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Perhaps most controversially, Gofman advocates "bringing home the Nuremberg Principles." Death spread by nuclear power strikes him as murder of a civilian population, fitting the Nuremberg definition of crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg statement that "Crimes against international law are committed by men, not abstract entities" would therefore open legions of scientists, bureaucrats and others to prosecution. The more practical converse of his view is that citizens who withhold taxes, trespass on reactor sites or otherwise resist nuclear power are entitled to present juries with the reasons for their civil disobedience--a line of defense judges disallow...
After another year doing basketball on WHRB, Scheper might give a broadcasting career a try, but he's not making any committments. Another possibility is Law school. To the suprise of no one, one school seems to attract Scheper more than any other: Notre Dame...
...Enrollment is larger in Gov 30 than in other introductory Gov courses because a number of students in it intend to go to law school, schools of public policy and, rightly or wrongly, they may think this course has something to do with that," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government said yesterday...
...realize our peaceful actions may provoke violent reactions on the part of the authorities. They are defending their private property, their investment. They are acting to uphold the law. But human life comes before property rights. If they use violence, we will not retaliate, but we will collectively resist arrest or removal by all possible nonviolent means. We give each occupier a six-hour training session before the action to inform him or her of all possible means of intimidation, crowd dispersal and legal action that may be used against us. The police are not our enemies. Nuclear power threatens...
...Clyde Ferguson Jr., professor of Law and chairman of the executive committee, said yesterday the meetings with students will be one of the committee's many efforts to "get an impression of what students, faculty and other people perceive to be the strengths, weaknesses and possible means of improving the department...