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...summers later, I’ve decided to spend my time volunteering with the Legal Aid office in my home county in Ohio, with a special interest in foreclosure cases...
...senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf. Calabresi covered the last two years of the Bush White House for TIME and spoke to many of Bush's former political advisers for this story. Weisskopf, a tenacious journalist who lost his right hand while reporting for TIME in Iraq, spent two months interviewing legal sources on all sides of the story, going back to them again and again to clarify the issues...
...have her strong leadership," says Joseph C. Bell, a partner with the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson who played a key role in ISLP's assistance to Liberia. ISLP has been involved in a dozen projects there--including drafting palm-oil concessions and upgrading the shipping industry's legal regime--which is making all contracts public, though not all are easily accessible. Imperfect as that development is, it's a significantly improved standard for both developing nations and the multinationals that do business with them...
Thursday's ruling said that the legal ambiguity violated Purdy's basic rights, and interfered with her ability to choose how she dies - a right enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights. "Everyone has the right to respect for their private life, and the way that Ms. Purdy determines to spend the closing moments of her life is part of the act of living," the ruling stated...
Passions can run high. Advertising billboards featuring scantily clad women are periodically destroyed. There is a legal battle under way over demands to run separate public buses for men and women on routes serving ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. Recently Jerusalem has seen weekly protests over a municipal decision to open a parking lot on the Sabbath. Last year, a former Health Minister from the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party blamed a series of small earth tremors on the rise of homosexual activity. Earlier, Shas had led religious opposition to gay couples' being granted the right to adopt children...