The university competes in intercollegiate debate within the National Educational Debate Association, in intercollegiate mock trial and computer science competitions, and at South Carolina Student Legislature.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles in 1996 about a trial that was conducted to determine if vitamin A ( in the form of retinyl palmitate ) and β-carotene had any beneficial effects to prevent cancer.

* 1792 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

The National Convention held the trial of Louis XVI and David voted for the death of the King, causing his wife, a royalist, to divorce him.

Because a trial would require the " presumption of innocence ," such a proceeding would contradict the mission of the National Convention.

* 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the " Chicago Eight " that began on September 24.

Excitement was so high that a bidding war for the first machine broke out between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the latter eventually winning and receiving serial number 001 in 1976 for a six-month trial.

At his Nuremberg trial, reflecting the traditional anti-Semitic bias of the German middle class and naval officers of his generation, he argued that after the experience of 1917 and 1918, " International Jewry " had " gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs ", and " one could not be surprised that the National Socialist government tried to loosen and, as far as possible remove this large and oppressive influence.

* See Chapter VI, The National Convention, for more details on the king's trial and execution.

* Diabetes control and complications trial ( DCCT ) – A 10-year study ( 1983 – 1993 ) funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to assess the effects of intensive therapy on the long-term complications of diabetes.

Hutu Rwandan genocidal leaders are on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the Rwandan National Court system, and, most recently, through the informal Gacaca programme.

Since each individual's tolerance to lactose varies, according to the U. S. National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), " Dietary control of lactose intolerance depends on people learning through trial and error how much lactose they can handle.

In June 2012, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced it will begin using UAVs in Nepal, to aid conservation efforts, following a successful trial of two aircraft in Chitwan National Park, with ambitions to expand to other countries, such as Tanzania and Malaysia.

However a 2004 National Audit Organization report noted that the business case was unproved ; conditions at the site of the Variable Speed Limits trial were not stable before or during the trial, and the study was deemed neither properly controlled nor reliable.

Thereafter, the PCR eliminated the role of the centrist parties, including a show trial of National Peasant Party leaders, and forced other parties to merge with the PCR.

Given that both Jonathan and Peleg Card were scheduled to be tried by the Vermont Committee of Safety ( Peleg died 6 Sep 1777, and it is unknown if the trial was actually held ) it is likely that Philo Card is, in reality, Peleg Card ( 1740 – 1777 ) --- and Stephen ( 1748 – 1798 ) -- ( Source: National Archives of Canada, WO 28 / 10, Reel B-2867, pp. 17 – 18.

During the trial, “ Granger cases ” was said by Justice Field to be the popular term for the group of six cases, but only because they involved legislation in the farmers ' interest, and not because the National Grange, or any of its lodges as such, had anything to do with them.

" The reference here is the trial of the " Chicago 7 ," seven anti-war activists indicted for their role in the demonstrations and police riots in downtown Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968.

In 2011, researchers in National Biotech Centre in Madrid unveiled data from the Phase I clinical trial of their new vaccine.

The trial was co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ), which is a division of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), and the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Merck developed the experimental vaccine called V520 to stimulate HIV-specific cellular immunity, which prompts the body to produce T cells that kill HIV-infected cells.

His career took off when he presided over the trial of Louis XVI — Barère was the presiding officer in the National Convention and he was the one who questioned the king.

Lafayette was reinstated as commander of the National Guard by the new monarch, who revoked the post after Lafayette's inconsistent command during the trial of d ' Artois's ministers and to marginalize the Republican opposition which Lafayette led de facto.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

When the National League's chief counsel, future Senator George Wharton Pepper referred to the activities of baseball players on the field as " labor ", Landis interrupted him: " As a result of 30 years of observation, I am shocked because you call playing baseball ' labor.

* Silent Coup, is a bestselling 1992 book written by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Watergate burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters to protect his future wife, Maureen Biner, by removing information linking her to a call-girl ( prostitute ) ring that worked for the DNC.

Such associations are often focused on common professional interests ( such as bankruptcy lawyers or in-house counsel ) or common ethnic interests ( such as gender, race, religion, or national heritage ), such as the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Some high level members of the court are ex officio members of special ad hoc courts ; the investigatory commission of the High Court of Justice ( Haute Cour de Justice ), which may be convened to try the French President for high treason ; the French Court of Justice ( Cour de Justice de la République ), which may be convened to try current or former cabinet ministers for crimes committed while in office ; and the National Judicial Council ( Conseil supérieur de la magistrature ), which serves as a court of judicial discipline and disciplinary counsel.

After leaving the Senate, Brooke practiced law in Washington, D. C., partner O ' Connor & Hannan ; of counsel, Csaplar & Bok, Boston and served as chairman of the board of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

He also served as counsel for the National Consumers League arguing for Progressive causes such as minimum wage and restricted work hours.

He served in the Arizona Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975 and was a lawyer before becoming a special counsel to the Arizona state House Republican caucus 1991 – 92.

* William Hodgins Biggar, KC ( 1852 – 1922 ), Ontario lawyer, political figure, and vice president & general counsel for the Grand Trunk ( Canadian National ) Railway

At the July 2005 National Board of Directors meeting a resolution was passed: " The actions of the 1976 and 1998 National Conventions have attempted to clarify the Fraternity ’ s open membership policy … The National Board is charged with … enforcing the membership policies of the Fraternity as well as ensuring compliance with applicable laws … and upon advice of legal counsel, all chapters must practice open membership without regard of gender ".

Generally, the Minister of National Revenue is represented by specialized tax litigation counsel from the Department of Justice.

Previously, Bettman was a senior vice-president and general counsel to the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan's " favorite economist " and former ENRON board member Wendy Lee Gramm (' 62 ); Ryan Henry (' 68 ) and Robert Silberman (' 75 ), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush ; to centrist Ray Schoenke (' 59 *), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association ( an alternative to the National Rifle Association ); to Jerry Berman (' 58 ), chief counsel of the ACLU.

For example, he appointed one of his fellow members of the Democratic National Committee to serve as counsel for a textile company and another the vice-president of a shipping line.

* Neal Katyal, Former Acting Solicitor General, lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, former Special Assistant to U. S. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Counsel to Mr. Holder on National Security Affairs, law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

The National Republican Trust PAC sponsored a campaign commercials against Obama in 2008 which FactCheck. org described as “ one of the sleaziest false TV ads of the campaign .” One of Newsmax Media owners " was among the most insistent endorsers of the Obama birth certificate myth " and a popularizer of the canard that Bill Clinton's White House counsel Vince Foster did not commit suicide -- as determined by five official investigations -- but was murdered.

Stein served with the National Hockey League ( NHL ) as vice-president and legal counsel for nearly 15 years before becoming the fifth and last president of the NHL in 1992.

In 1928 he was active in the presidential campaign of Governor Alfred E. Smith, and in 1932 he became counsel to the Democratic National Committee.

He was called to Washington in 1963 to serve as a foreign affairs officer on the National Security Council staff and was successively deputy special assistant to the President, associate special counsel, and deputy special counsel on the White House staff, 1964 – 1967.

Lynn was general counsel for the Republican National Committee in 1979 and president of the James S. Brady Presidential Foundation in the early 1980s.

This day, however, Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), sat in on the proceedings.