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...excited, to be asked to contribute to this most important endeavor,” Kagan wrote in an e-mail to the Law School community.Kagan said that she viewed the post as an opportunity to “help advance this nation’s commitment to the rule of law at what I think is a critical time in our history.”Kagan announced that she plans to take a leave of absence from the faculty of the Law School and resign the deanship, which she has held since 2003. During her tenure as dean...
...money was for and whether the funded program was a continuing one. Ethlyn O’Garro, director of the Sponsored Programs Administration, could not be reached for comment yesterday. The JEHT Foundation was established in 2000 to promote criminal and juvenile justice systems reform, to advocate the international rule of law, and to advance fair and competitive elections. “It’s so disappointing to see the Madoff scandal have an effect on a group like the JEHT Foundation, which was sponsoring numerous critically important human rights initiatives,” Giannini said...
...Gaza became densely populated with Arab refugees expelled from the newly independent Israel. While in the West Bank, Jordan offered citizenship to many of the refugees, Egypt did not extend the offer to Gazans; they remained under Egyptian military rule until Israel reoccupied the strip following the 6-day war against the Arab States in 1967. Gaza and the West Bank remained under Israeli occupation and military control for nearly 30 years, during which the Palestinians of the region struggled achieve independence while clashing with Jewish settlers encroaching into Palestinian territories...
...Those who support torture may believe that we can abuse captives in certain select circumstances and still be true to our values. But that is a false compromise. We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground." - in an essay about the use of torture, Washington Monthly, Jan/Feb/March...
...Kagan added that she viewed the post as an opportunity to "help advance this nation's commitment to the rule of law at what I think is a critical time in our history." If confirmed, Kagan would be the first female solicitor general, apart from Barbara D. Underwood, who served as acting solicitor general for the first few months of the Bush administration...