Image by NobMouse via Flickr I practice one of the least exciting areas of law. At least in the eyes of those who ask me, almost every other day or so, “what area of law do you practice?” “Contracts,” I say. “Leases, amendments, assignments, and so on. All contracts.” Their eyes glaze over, and they […]
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Benjamin Kaplan has died
August 26, 2010 by
In 1945, with the war against Germany just over and the revelations of the crimes by the Nazis coming to light, the President Truman turned to Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court to serve as chief prosecutor for the United States in the then proposed war crimes tribunals against the Nazis. Accepting, Justice Jackson […]
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