Lower federal court judges follow a formal code of ethics, but this does not apply to Supreme Court justices, leaving potential conflicts of interest unchecked.
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A doctrine embraced by some conservatives could be adopted by the US Supreme Court. And if the court does, Americans’ political power will be dramatically limited.
Same-sex marriage and contraception rights could be under threat, if the same legal principle is used as in the recent abortion case.
The judicial theory has been a major talking point during the Supreme Court’s last term. But what does it actually mean?
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Insults against religion are illegal in Nigeria’s multi-faceted legal codes.
Framers of the Constitution put in a clause giving lawmakers immunity from liability for any ‘speech or debate.’ Interpreting it may be key in the battle to get some Republicans to testify.
The US has frozen tens of billions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Russians and their government. A legal scholar explains why confiscating them is a bit trickier.
55 years after Thurgood Marshall testified during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings show race and crime continue to drive questions about a Black jurist.
Nigeria needs a new constitution to address its multi-faceted problems.
Under the Sullivan standard, a public official has to prove that there was ‘actual malice’ in defamation cases. That could be challenged in the Supreme Court.
The biggest challenge is that the government does not have a monopoly over the legitimate use of force.
The biggest hurdle for republicans is the reality that Australia is already an independent nation. Only sentiment and inertia links us to the British crown.
Nigeria’s legislators have no constitutional right to force political parties to adopt direct primaries.
The constitutional reform agreement reached in November 1981 has produced a bitterness in national relations that lingers to this day and imposes on Canada a cost that has weakened the nation.
Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
Jacob Zuma ran out of ideas to defend himself. Martyrdom is almost impossible without a cause, and he has none.
Nigeria must fix its electoral system before the next general elections in 2023.
The appointment of judges has hitherto been an obscure and oftentimes clandestine affair. This has produced incompetent judges and led to claims that the judiciary is beholden to the executive.
Principales colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor emerita, University of Sydney
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Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor in law and public policy, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
