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...Habeas corpus is a right that was enshrined in the Magna Carta to prevent kings from indefinitely and arbitrarily detaining anyone they chose," added Vincent Warren, executive-director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal foundation that is also party to the case...
...Wilkins ’77 a heads up: one of the professor’s favorite students might be heading to the White House. But that favorite student wouldn’t be Barack. It’d be Michelle R. Obama, his wife. The presidential hopeful graduated magna cum laude from the Law School in 1991; his wife earned the degree three years earlier. But the senator was still outstanding in his own right—“brilliant, charismatic, and focused,” said Wilkins, the Kirkland and Ellis professor of law. The two forged...
...Nieman Foundation for Journalism. The fellowship supports investigative projects that exemplify Chris Georges’ commitment to in-depth reporting on issues of enduring social value and the human impact of public policy.Chris Georges ’87 was an executive editor of The Crimson and a magna cum laude graduate of the College. As a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, he covered politics, economics, and budget issues. Three of his stories on the welfare system were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Georges also served as editor of The Washington Monthly...
Tribe entered the Law School in the fall of 1963. He eventually did well—graduating magna cum laude—but his first-year grades weren’t good enough for him to gain a spot on the law review. His clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart proved to be his big break, and Tribe was offered a job as an assistant professor when it ended...
...Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just wait a while, the ship will right itself, buoyed up by a vast ocean of common experience and belief: a commitment to democracy and free markets, intensifying economic links, a shared culture that ranges from the Magna Carta to Montesquieu to Madonna to Mastercard to mtv. In one sense that has to be right. In a world still complex and dangerous, Europeans know they will not often find more natural partners than the Americans. Even as politicians disagree over how to handle Iraq and carbon emissions, French...