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Muneer Ahmad
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A 22-year-old Muslim male, Haydar Moussa, wrote a poem which appeared in "Sada Al Mashrek," a Montreal bi-weekly, in which he says that Quebec women "have neither faith nor law" and that they "spent your youth drunk/And went from one male to the next. Canada's [Omar Khadr] was taken into custody by American forces in Afghanistan in 2002, then transferred to Guantanamo where he remains. In a battle with U.S. forces, he is accused of throwing a grenade which killed a medic. He himself suffered three bullet wounds. Khadr was 15 years old at the time, the son of Ahmad Khadr, an ally of Osama bin Laden who was killed in a battle with Pakistani forces along the Afghan border the following year. Other concerns have also been raised by his American lawyer, Muneer Ahmad, and the Khadr family's ...
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...(3) For, as Muneer Ahmad has argued in a recent article on racial vio...
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...See also Muneer I. Ahmad, Interpreting Communities: Lawyering Acro...
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Arat-Koc explores the ways in which Canadian identity has been reconfigured in the post-9/11 period. She focuses on the violent political reaction to a speech Sunera Thobani made in Oct 2001 reflects on notions of Canadian national identity and belonging in the post-9/11 period.
...As Muneer Ahmad (2002) argues, racial hierarchies work as a ...
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... . FOR PETITIONER: Muneer I. Ahmad, New Haven, CT. FOR RESPONDENT: ...
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By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor moleary@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- Former workers at Marlin Firearms in North Haven are now eligible for extended unemployment benefits, help with health care costs and supplemental income and job retraining after a clinic at the Yale Law School won an appeal to federal labor officials.
... The law students and supervising attorney, Muneer Ahmad, a clinical professor of law at Yale Law Sch...
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By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor moleary@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- Washington Colala, 44, is facing his last weekend in the United States and leaving behind a 10-year-old daughter, unless immigration officials allow him to stay to see through a civil rights challenge to his deportation.
...'t cure an administrative finding," said Muneer Ahmad, clinical professor and supervisor at the la...
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[...] it enlarges the time frame for action and result, decentering the transformative "rights moment" - the landmark case, the smoking gun document, the game-changing revelation - and instead commits the lawyer to a long-term oppositional stance, and a set of daily practices of objection and contravention.347 Second, the resistance frame contextualizes the individual client representation within the larger structures and operations of power, rejecting an atomistic view of lawyering or a diffuse engagement with the state and opting instead for direct confrontation with state violence. The hunger strike is a profound and necessary assertion of the self - messy, unabstracted, and inescapably human. Because Guantánamo places the prisoners on the razor's edge of bare life, such direct res...
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The post-911 executive detention cases provide occasion to consider how courts have conditioned deference upon transparency and deliberation in the crafting and implementation of security-related policy. By invoking procedural devices in this way, courts have brought large numbers of cases to effective resolution. Moreover, they have insisted that the coordinate branches engage in a more thorough and deliberative decision-making process. Courts have required Congress to oversee executive branch decision-making through clear legislation, and required the President to reasonably interpret authorizing legislation and properly implement congressional delegations of power. This muscular judicial review has generally focused on the means of coordinate branch decision-making, avoiding substant...
... outcome of the cases at bar uncertain."53 Muneer Ahmad argues that "[w]hile commentators can point ...
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Current legal treatment of homosexuals is best understood as a new episode of discrimination, in which old paradigms combine and coalesce in novel ways. This article attempts to situate the state of gay and lesbian legal status within an illustrative historical construct. It examines the treatment of homosexual persons during the Progressive Era, surveying the approximately thirty years from 1886 to 1915. It then shifts to the dawn of the Cold War Era, and the roughly fifteen-year period from 1946 to 1961 when homosexuals faced unprecedented discrimination in the name of national security. It demonstrates how the arguments advanced against homosexuals during these two episodes have resurfaced and reinvigorated anti-gay rhetoric during this past decade's episode. Particular attention is ...
...According to Muneer Ahmad, "[T]his rendering of the terrorists as femi...
