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Commentary Pakistan's Constitutional Shenanigans
Pakistan's Constitutional Shenanigans
JURIST Staff
May 7, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's "establishment" of generals, intelligence chiefs, and top bureaucrats may yet preserve its longtime hold on power by effectively playing off restored Supreme Court judges against its...

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Commentary Protecting Vulnerable Minorities in Canada: Muslims in the Mass Media
Protecting Vulnerable Minorities in Canada: Muslims in the Mass Media
JURIST Staff
May 6, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Joseph, counsel for a group of Canadian law students who recently filed human rights complaints against the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's for its refusal to publish a response to a string of articles allegedly targeting Muslim...

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Commentary Ramush Haradinaj: War Hero or War Criminal?
Ramush Haradinaj: War Hero or War Criminal?
JURIST Staff
May 5, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury says that the recent war crimes acquittal of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army leader Ramush Haradinaj before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - a ruling now under prosecution...

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Commentary The DOJ and the Geneva Conventions: Getting Rights Wrong
The DOJ and the Geneva Conventions: Getting Rights Wrong
JURIST Staff
April 29, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently disclosed US Department of Justice letters to US Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-OR) on detainee interrogations reflect a misleading and erroneous understanding of...

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Commentary Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable
Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable
JURIST Staff
April 24, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Lee, a former Navy JAG now practising national security law, says that kicking contractors off the American battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan is not the answer to alleged problems and abuses; security contractors aren't mercenaries and...

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Commentary The EU Lisbon Treaty: Old Wine, New Bottle?
The EU Lisbon Treaty: Old Wine, New Bottle?
JURIST Staff
April 14, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the controversy over ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty is somewhat strange as the Treaty represents no...

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Commentary Will the Universal Periodic Review Save the UN Human Rights Council?
Will the Universal Periodic Review Save the UN Human Rights Council?
JURIST Staff
April 11, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ophélie Namiech, a Legacy Heritage Fellow working for UN Watch in Geneva, says that to restore the credibility of the UN Human Rights Council governments that care about human rights must commit themselves to do everything...

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Commentary Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians: Opening a Can of Worms?
Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians: Opening a Can of Worms?
JURIST Staff
April 9, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the case of US civilian contractor Alaa 'Alex' Mohammad Ali, currently the subject of criminal charges initiated by the US military, is an ostensibly unremarkable proceeding that...

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Commentary The Yoo Torture Memo: Break the Silence of the Lambs
The Yoo Torture Memo: Break the Silence of the Lambs
JURIST Staff
April 8, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the recently released 2003 John Yoo memo on US military interrogation techniques opened up a path to torture and leaves a great number of persons potentially...

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Commentary Flag of Convenience? Bush Administration Toutings of  International Law
Flag of Convenience? Bush Administration Toutings of International Law
JURIST Staff
April 7, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist John Cerone of New England School of Law says that while we are accustomed to seeing the US president wrap himself in the US flag to avoid the restraints of international law, his posture in recent cases...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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