Classical normalisation removes structural anomalies that may occur in relations. These anomalies are defined by analysing various forms of predicates involving the attributes of the relations and by considering the implications of sequentially performed updating processes. The extension suggested in this paper takes into account the implications of performing update processes not necessarily s...

The writ of habeas corpus and the right to due process have long been linked together, but their relationship has never been more unsettled or important. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States detained hundreds of suspected terrorists who later brought legal challenges using the writ. In the first of the landmark Supreme Court cases addressing those detentions, Hamdi v. Rum...

33 Wendy E. Parmet Almost 800 years ago, King John at the Battle of Runnymede signed the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta promised among other things that, “No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined...except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” That last clause, “the law of the land” clause, came down over the centuri...