1246 ABA Journal Legal History articles.
As the trial the man alleged to be Canada’s most prolific serial killer ever nears an end, after six months and at a cost of some $100 million (Canadian) dollars,…
Aug 1, 2007 10:22 PM CDT
Four months after he sought to remove Pakistan’s top judge from the bench, the country’s president is now trying to get back on his good side.
After a July 20…
Aug 1, 2007 6:31 PM CDT
Son of Sam is Arrested
Aug 1, 2007 8:39 AM CDT
Corrected: Ramon Roubideaux, a well-known American Indian lawyer who represented activists involved in the 71-day standoff at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1973,…
Jul 30, 2007 7:40 PM CDT
The Boston Globe won both an award and an honorable mention in the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards presented this week by ABA President Karen J. Mathis for outstanding…
Jul 27, 2007 5:20 PM CDT
When Scott Turow’s daughter mentioned that she might want to be a litigator, his reaction was not positive. At the time the best-selling author quit his former job as a…
Jul 26, 2007 5:52 AM CDT
The atmosphere is dank, dreary and depressing. Nor are the stories told by those who spent time there accounts of happy times. Nonetheless, Alcatraz, the infamous prison on an island…
Jul 23, 2007 5:18 PM CDT
Updated: A pizza deliveryman and convicted rapist who reportedly has murdered more victims than any other serial killer in Los Angeles history was sentenced to death today.
Chester Turner, 40,…
Jul 10, 2007 10:09 PM CDT
Sun Sets on British Empire
Jul 1, 2007 9:00 PM CDT
Law Library of Congress celebrates its 175th anniversary
Jul 1, 2007 6:54 PM CDT
Bowing to traditional canon law, Pope Benedict XV has reinstated the traditional rule for papal elections.
From now on a two-thirds majority must vote to elect a new pope, the…
Jun 27, 2007 1:04 AM CDT
Seeking to help disenfranchised former convicts in Florida, the American Civil Liberties Union is promoting a “Juneteenth” effort. Its purpose is to make them aware of a state clemency program…
Jun 19, 2007 1:28 AM CDT
Although it is a novel, rather than non-fiction, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” has, perhaps more than any other book, impressed into the minds of many a consciousness of…
Jun 13, 2007 9:53 PM CDT
An 88-year-old American lawyer who helped try war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II says today’s Guantanamo Bay cases fly in the face of the prosecutorial precedent he…
Jun 12, 2007 12:27 AM CDT
Embattled U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales appeared unfazed at a lunchtime lecture in Miami, despite a pending Senate no-confidence vote scheduled for later in the day.
The vote would have no…
Jun 11, 2007 9:32 PM CDT
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