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Archive: October 2012 (2 Posts)

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Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick Speaks at Constitution Day Event

Posted by: Jeanine Cali

In celebration of Constitution Day (September 17), the Law Library welcomed Dahlia Lithwick of Slate Magazine who presented a lecture titled “Supreme Court Review: Election Year Issues and Highlights of the Last Term.”  The event was held on Monday, September 24 in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building. Lithwick’s …

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Sedition Law in India

Posted by: Jeanine Cali

The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a Legal Analyst in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress.  British colonial era laws continue to have relevancy in the legal systems of India and Pakistan.  Ironically, a sedition law used by the British colonial government to suppress nationalist dissent in the …