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Commentary Summoning Caesar to Trial in Pakistan
Summoning Caesar to Trial in Pakistan
JURIST Staff
December 16, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf - the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" - to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the...

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Commentary Senator Leahy, Executive Power, and the Rule of Law
Senator Leahy, Executive Power, and the Rule of Law
JURIST Staff
December 11, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that last week's executive privilege ruling by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shows that Congress has the stronger argument in its fight for White House...

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Commentary Congress, Torture and Romain Gary's 'Chien Blanc'
Congress, Torture and Romain Gary's 'Chien Blanc'
JURIST Staff
December 10, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that new revelations about top US lawmakers' encouragement and support of state-sponsored torture in the years immediately following 9/11 make them complicit in acts many would...

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Commentary The Cambodian Genocide Court: Lessons for the ICC in Uganda?
The Cambodian Genocide Court: Lessons for the ICC in Uganda?
JURIST Staff
December 3, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that especially in the context of its troubled pursuit of Ugandan rebels, the International Criminal Court in The Hague might take a leaf from the book...

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Commentary 'Clarifying' the Geneva Conventions: A Ploy to Limit US Culpability
'Clarifying' the Geneva Conventions: A Ploy to Limit US Culpability
JURIST Staff
November 30, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says official US calls for "clarifying" the Geneva Conventions are part of a ploy to limit their application and enable prisoners to be treated outside the law...

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Commentary Iraq's Parliament: A House (Even More) Divided
Iraq's Parliament: A House (Even More) Divided
JURIST Staff
November 28, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Sunni-Shi'i divide in the Iraqi parliament is only one split complicating the passage of controversial legislation in the troubled state... Conventional wisdom seems...

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Commentary Pakistan Elections and the Lawyers' Movement
Pakistan Elections and the Lawyers' Movement
JURIST Staff
November 27, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior...

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Commentary Pakistan in Emergency: A Cluster of Misfortunes
Pakistan in Emergency: A Cluster of Misfortunes
JURIST Staff
November 21, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that Pakistan is enduring a series of misfortunes under General Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule which will be remembered by its people... Mr....

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Commentary Restore the Rule of Law in Pakistan: An Open Letter
Restore the Rule of Law in Pakistan: An Open Letter
JURIST Staff
November 18, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja (Lahore High Court, ret.) and his colleagues at the Lahore University of Management Sciences Department of Law and Policy in Lahore, Pakistan, call on legal colleagues worldwide to raise their voices against the...

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Commentary Pakistan: Rights in the Absence of Law?
Pakistan: Rights in the Absence of Law?
JURIST Staff
November 13, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the government's use of plainclothes thugs to brutally suppress dissent and protest in the present "emergency" makes it clear that...

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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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