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  • Should the US government try some suspected terrorists in civilian courts and others in military commissions?
    “The two-tiered system produces higher overall credibility without sacrificing the incapacitation of dangerous people.”
    — Professor Eric Posner
    “The government should not be able to pick and choose the applicable rules of procedure depending on how strong its case is.”
    — "yankee"

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Feature:

November 10, 2009: This fall, for only the second time in 106 years, the Law School cornerstone was opened and its historical content revealed.

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Omri Ben-Shahar, "One-Way Contracts"
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James Q. Whitman, "The Verdict of Battle"

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Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden, "Designing Constitutional Amendment Rules - To Scale"
Deanell Reece Tacha, "The Role of the Judge in Times of Economic and Cultural Turmoil"

News

11.20.09 : Martha Nussbaum Honored by Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
11.17.09 : Federal Criminal Justice Project Wins Sentence Reduction for Client
11.17.09 : Richard Epstein Discusses the Stupak Amendment
11.13.09 : Geof Stone: "Church and State in JFK's America"

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Events

11.20.2009 : The Changing Court: The 2009-10 Supreme Court Term
11.23.2009 : Admissions Open House
11.25.2009 - 11.27.2009 : Thanksgiving Break
12.04.2009 - 12.05.2009 : Conference: "Markets, Firms and Property Rights: A Celebration of the Research of Ronald Coase"
12.04.2009 : Last Day of Autumn Classes
12.05.2009 - 12.08.2009 : Autumn Quarter Reading Period

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Did you know?

On October 22, 1964, the Today Show featured the Law School.

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