Constitutional Law

Total news: 70
Last news: May 2, 2007 20:11:25

Denvers East High School wins a national competition arguing constitutional law. - [Read more]

NAUKOT: President Pervez Musharraf has said Saturday that the lawyers are politicizing the constitutional issue. - [Read more]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wasted no time on his return Thursday from trips to the United States and the Middle East to drum up support for constitutional reform, which he has vowed will be his legacy. - [Read more]

Suing under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983, Canatella claimed the online publication of his discipline record violated, among other things, his constitutional right to privacy and procedural due process rights. - [Read more]

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has canvassed for a constitutional provision mandatorily setting aside a certain percentage of whatever earnings by the Federation to be saved as means of establishing a fund for future generations,just as it also called for the establishment of Special Investment Fund to manage the external reserves. - [Read more]

Government has come under fire in the Constitutional Court for failing to honour a Pretoria High Court ruling. The court ordered government to pay Dingaan Nyathis health and legal costs of over R300 000. - [Read more]

May 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has named a new judge to the Constitutional Court, the second such appointment in two days amid a political crisis. - [Read more]

KIEV, May 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed on Friday a decree on the appointment of Vasily Kostitsky to the post of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, a representative of the presidential press service told Itar-Tass. - [Read more]

AUSTIN -- The Texas Senate unanimously approved a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday requiring that major legislative votes be recorded to show the actions of individual lawmakers. - [Read more]

Turkeys ruling AK Party won key support on Thursday from a small opposition party for a package of sweeping constitutional changes that includes a plan to have the president elected by the people, not by parliament. - [Read more]

The last 24 hours have been particularly interesting on the website digg.com. If you don’t digg—and I don’t—digg is a social aggregation website for content. Put differently—that is in English—Digg effectively lets users continuously vote on cool content. Content that... - [Read more]

On Wednesday, April 25, 2007, Professor Anup Malani delievered a Chicagos Best Ideas talk on Valuing Laws as Local Amenities. Professor Malani thinks we go wrong in trying to determine the value of a law only by its direct effects... - [Read more]

NBCs Andrea Mitchell, who began her journalism career in Philadelphia with KYW News Radio, participates in a Citizens Constitutional Conversation about her memoir, Talking Back…To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels. Program recorded on 2/21/2007.

Todays news includes that of the resignation of MITs much admired Admissions Dean, Marilee Jones, who admitted fabricating her own educational credentials. Here was a person with no undergraduate degree, who feigned one or more undergraduate and graduate degrees in... - [Read more]

Among the many responses to my earlier post about Carhart, were some that accused me of anti-Catholic bigotry. I cant say this completely surprised me, but its surely unfortunate. Assume the following: (1) In 1954 the Supreme Court, in a... - [Read more]