As the world increasingly embraces the mantra of green products and services, the legal community is encountering a proliferation of litigation surrounding false and misleading environmental marketing claims.

FORBES: "Greenwashing": Deceptive Business Claims of "Eco-Friendliness"

Still, it must focus far more intensely on the implications for the war on terrorism and proliferation of allowing American legal persons to purchase this Iranian credit instrument.

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Shariah courts: Brown's government has begun institutionalizing the practice of separate legal systems for Muslims with the proliferation of "family law" courts where women can be treated, in accordance with Shariah, as second-class citizens - less-than-equal to male Muslims and entitled to a fraction of the property due the latter in the adjudication of divorce or testate matters.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to Britain

The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives.

NEWYORKER: Preparing the Battlefield

The disclosures "place at risk ongoing cooperation between countries partners, allies and common stakeholders to confront common challenges from terrorism to pandemic diseases to nuclear proliferation that threaten global stability, " State Department legal adviser Harold Koh wrote to a lawyer for the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Saturday, in a last-ditch effort to forestall publication.

WSJ: Vast Leak of Cables by WikiLeaks Discloses Diplomatic Secrets

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the single most important legal tool that the world has to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

NPR: Non-Proliferation in the 21st Century

In the absence of COCOM controls, certain member countries will have inadequate legal instruments to prevent exports of technologies that lend themselves to nuclear proliferation.

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