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Home Is Where They Have To Take You In: Right to Entry For U.S. Citizens
This legal sidebar discusses the Congressional interest to revoke passports of U.S. citizens who have gone abroad to fight for foreign terrorist groups. This issue derived from the concern about preventing such persons from returning to conduct terrorist activities in the U.S.
Date:
October 16, 2014
Creator:
Lee, Margaret Mikyung
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Insurance and Climate Change: Do Governments Have a Duty to Protect Property Owners?
This legal sidebar discusses the climate change in context of federal and private insurers. One of the many insurance company concerns is whether the government can be held liable for not putting in place adequate infrastructure to protect against property damage from climate-change-related extreme weather.
Date:
October 16, 2014
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selected CRS Materials on Detention and Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects and Enemy Belligerents
This legal sidebar discusses issues of contention, which include whether U.S. detention and interrogation practices were permissible under domestic and international law, and whether U.S. personnel who authorized or engaged in such practices could be subject to criminal liability.
Date:
December 16, 2014
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Big Deal? U.S. Changes Stance on Cruelty Prohibition
This legal sidebar outlines a change in the U.S. interpretation regarding aspects of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT); these comments were presented as part of the U.S. periodic report to the U.N. Committee Against Torture.
Date:
December 16, 2014
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library