Jurist

KOSOVO: The ICJ on a Declaration of Independence

Zana Berisha and Kutjesa Nezaj, both 2010 graduates of the Pitt Law LL.M. program, are Kosovar citizens and write about the International Court of Justice’s recent decision on their country’s ...
The Conversation

The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth

Woody Holton received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, and the Henry E. Huntington library. Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the ...
Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...
USA Today

These are the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence

Everybody knows that the Fourth of July celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the historic document by means of which the 13 American colonies severed their political connections ...