Global justice edges closer; creation of international criminal court under negotiation
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Government attorney and law professor David Scheffer was in June 1997 chosen by Pres Bill Clinton to be the country's first-ever ambassador at large for war crimes matters. Long interested in international law, Scheffer is determined not to let the job exceed his grasp, and has five initial areas of concern. These include the Balkans, with the work of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal; Iraq, with the Gulf War and the massacres of the Shi'ites and Kurds; the Great Lakes region of Africa, with the Rwanda war crimes tribunal, and heading an American delegation to negotiate a permanent international criminal court.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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Automated management solutions
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Four sole practitioners and small-firm attorneys who made the decision to automate are profiled. They all agree that it was well worth the time and money involved. Not only do the computers give them an edge when litigating against other small firms, but their computers save them so much time and money that they can take on large firms successfully as well. One of them, Perry J. Radoff, has made his hard-won expertise generally accessible by authoring 'Short Course on Personal Computers' for the ABA's Law Practice Management Section.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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Indiana Jones, Esq.: lawyer-explorer finds the lost city of Ubar
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George Hedges is a litigator with a MA in classical studies who was instrumental in finding the lost city of Ubar. He and documentary filmmaker Nicholas Clapp persuaded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which had developed a kind of satellite imaging that could be used to look under sand, to use this technique to take photographs of the Arabian desert. They were eventually able to differentiate between ancient incense roads and modern tracks, and archaeologists found and have begun to excavate the city.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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