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Revised treaty between Australia and Switzerland
On 30 July 2013, the former government announced that Australia and Switzerland had signed a revised tax treaty. It replaced the previous treaty signed in 1980. The revised treaty will: enhance the already strong economic relationship between Australia and Switzerland by aligning the bilateral tax arrangements more closely with current...
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Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments
"Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a term encompassing a wide range of procedures that involve the removal or alteration of a woman’s genitalia. The federal courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) have classified FGM as a form of persecution, a showing of which can act as a basis...
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Law Prof as Toolmaker: An Interview with PreCYdent’s Thomas A. Smith (San Diego)
Joe Hodnicki: I've been fairly critical of law professors who venture into the field of bibliometrics without an understanding of the theory and techniques information scientists use to produce citation studies, without in many cases even an inkling of the work of Eugene Garfield, the founder of modern citation indexing and citation...
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Comparative Environmental Law On The Internet
Nicholas A. Robinson The Internet provides direct access to many primary sources of Environmental Law. Nations increasingly provide their environmental statutes and regulations on the Internet. As specialist environmental law centers, universities, government agencies or other entities assemble and provide a jurisdiction's environmental laws on the Internet, a world-wide service...
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Argentina Decriminalizes Drug Use? Well, No.
A Cato Institute blog reported yesterday that Argentina has "decriminalized the personal consumption of drugs" in that country. However, I don't think that blog's interpretation of the source it cites, which is an article in Spanish published on the website El Financiero, quite gives the full story. First of all,...
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Egyptian lawyers accuse Obama of crimes against humanity
On Thursday, CBN said that lawyers in Egypt filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court charging President Obama with crimes against humanity, citing the Egyptian news outlet El Watan. The charges also allege Obama is an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has spread violence in Egypt...
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Analysis: Wikileaks verdict could discourage future whistleblowers
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first reaction among his supporters was elation -- Bradley Manning had been acquitted on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy. But within minutes, the mood deflated as the man behind the largest array ofleaks in US history was convicted on 20 of 22 espionage...
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Medical Justice – Expecting Change: the case for ending the immigration detention of pregnant women – 11/06/13
Activists Fight Detention of Pregnant Immigrants Lilian Cardona-Perez came to America when she was 15. The nation's immigration and naturalization service provided her with a valid work permit which she has renewed it each year since, as required. In 2010, Cardona-Perez was detained on a criminal charge that was ultimately...
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Florida Judge Vinson: ObamaCare ‘Must Be Declared Void’
Florida-based federal judge Roger Vinson struck down the year-old health care law, ruling that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority to require individuals to buy insurance. In a challenge by 26 states, Vinson ruled that “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”...
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The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law. This legislation is the first major overhaul of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety responsibilities since 1938 and is a first step towards modernizing FDA’s food safety program. It will take several years to...
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