In September 2015, the LLOO of Hongqiao Street received a notice from the National People's Congress for the first time, soliciting opinions on theAnti-Domestic Violence Law (Draft). At that time, Wu Xinhui was representing a case in which a paralyzed old man in his nineties was beaten by...
We also invite interventions on any other aspect of the conference theme of inheritance inequality (for example, access to estate planning, default rules and definitions, property transfer rules and norms, the estate tax and luxury taxes, private responses to climate change, and integrating climate ...
The sanctions imposed by the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1986, drove many large multinational companies – along with their money and jobs – out of South Africa. As a result, holding on to apartheid brought the white-controlled South African state signific...
A domestic violence victim is crying in front of the police saying “why did you hit me so hard?” The defendant says nothing. The fact the defendant said nothing to defend himself in a situation where most people would be falling over backwards doing verbal gymnastics to convince the police...
1930: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Library of Congress 1930: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act After the stock market crash in 1929, protectionism protecting domestic industries against foreign competition usually by way of tariffs or subsidies efforts were on the rise. New legislation for tariffs narrowly passed ...
do. There is no news that we are winning this war. There is no news that says our country has not abandoned us. There is only the marching in the streets, the protests outside the hospitals where our brothers and sisters lay recovering from their wounds, the fighting in the Congress. ...
I’d like to tell you that this story has a happy ending. That Lara slowly got stronger, that she woke up, that I went to the hopsital and talked to her every day, that she did get new lungs. I’d like to tell you that Lara is still alive today, and that while we never got...
If you want to change Congress, change the people in it. And *keep* changing them until someone does the right thing by you and yours. That’s just at the national level. What about in your district? Your school board? City council? Mayor and alderman? Are *they* representing *you,*...
Charles Monteith did not have a Kindle he could switch to; he did not have email to catch up on. He could neither take to Twitter to opine upon the unwarranted delays on the Oxford line, nor Instagram the surrounding wheatfields. He read on.There was nothing else to do. He read on ...
A BLOGSITE FOR THE PRAISING OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME IN HONOR OF ALL BLACK WOMEN. "ONLY THE BLACK WOMAN CAN SAY WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, IN THE QUIET, UNDISPUTED DIGNITY OF MY WOMANHOOD, WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND WITHOUT SUING OR SPECIAL PATRONAGE