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Judge Halts End-Of-Life Decision-Making For Nursing Home Patients, Bob Egelko

Interviews

An Alameda County judge has ordered state health officials to stop allowing doctors at nursing homes to administer psychiatric drugs or make end-of-life decisions for patients the doctors consider mentally incompetent. An interview with Professor Mort Cohen

Man Arrested On Federal Charges Of Operating Spin-Off Silk Road Website, Marc H. Greenberg

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Global Insider: Despite Challenges, Bangladesh War Crimes Trials Bring Justice, An Interview With Zakia Afrin, Global Insider

Interviews

Last month, a war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh handed down a guilty verdict against Islamist party leader Ghulam Azam, its fifth conviction of a prominent political figure for involvement in atrocities committed during the country’s 1971 war for independence. In an email interview, Zakia Afrin, an adjunct professor in international law at Golden Gate University who focuses on intra-state conflict and peacebuilding, discussed the state of Bangladesh’s war crimes trials and the lessons they yield for other contexts.

The Kindred Client - Interview With Susan Rutberg, Jorge Aquino

Interviews

Prof. Susan Rutberg is interviewed about her defense of Attorney Stephen Bingham.

In this interview for The Recorder with freelance writer Jorge Aquino, Rutberg says Bingham's trial did more than present competing theories about what happened on an especially dark day in California history. Instead, she explains, the case became a referendum on Bingham's character: Was he, as Rutberg says, "an innocent client who was caught in a web of circumstantial evidence and who had led an exemplary life"? Or was Bingham, as a prison official put it, a "dilettante revolutionary" bent on undermining prison security?