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Regulating Federal Prosecutors' Ethics, Bruce A. Green, Fred C. Zacharias
Regulating Federal Prosecutors' Ethics, Bruce A. Green, Fred C. Zacharias
Vanderbilt Law Review
To what extent should federal prosecutors be regulated by states, by federal courts, or by the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ) as a matter of self-regulation? This Article concludes that, subject to congressional oversight, federal courts should have the ultimate authority to regulate federal prosecutors. However, it also acknowledges the legitimacy of competing claims by the states and DOJ. Sometimes, federal courts should defer to state court regulation, given traditional state regulation of the practice of law and a host of practical considerations. At other times, federal prosecutors have compelling reasons to seek freedom from both state regulation and regulation …
Terrorism And Globalization: An International Perspective, Linda Lim
Terrorism And Globalization: An International Perspective, Linda Lim
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Terrorism has little or nothing to do with globalization, just as it has little or nothing to do with Islam. Most of the many varieties of terrorism that afflict and have long afflicted the world are responses not to global phenomena, but to intensely local ones. Examples include particularly ethnic, nationalist, and religious fault lines such as violence by Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; Basques in Spain; the Hindu Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka; Kashmiris, Sikhs, and Hindu nationalists in India; the Aum cult in Japan; and Uighurs in Xinjiang, China.
The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center on …