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Presidential Pardons

The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of …

Chile’s American Desaparecido

In this guest post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, June 2011) sheds light on the chilling case of Professor Boris Weisfeiler, one of …