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Commentary Why the Fifth Circuit Was Wrong About Tom DeLay
Why the Fifth Circuit Was Wrong About Tom DeLay
JURIST Staff
August 11, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that the Fifth Circuit ruling blocking Texas Republicans - at the instance of Texas Democrats - from declaring Tom...

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Commentary The Draft UN Middle East Ceasefire Resolution
The Draft UN Middle East Ceasefire Resolution
JURIST Staff
August 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law explores the terms of the draft UN Security Council Middle East ceasefire resolution, but doubts that peace can be achieved without negotiations involving the key interested parties - not...

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Commentary Narrowing US War Crimes Law: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too?
Narrowing US War Crimes Law: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too?
JURIST Staff
August 4, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, a former judge advocate who helped develop and teach the US Department of Defense Law of War Program for almost 20 years, says that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...

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Commentary The Security Council on Iran: Fiddling While the Middle East Burns?
The Security Council on Iran: Fiddling While the Middle East Burns?
JURIST Staff
August 2, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that the timing of the UN Security Council's passage of a Chapter VII resolution on Iran in the midst of an escalating...

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Commentary Qana, War Crimes, and the Pending UN Resolution on Lebanon
Qana, War Crimes, and the Pending UN Resolution on Lebanon
JURIST Staff
July 31, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the Israeli air strike on Qana that killed over 60 Lebanese civilians has set the stage not only for possible war crimes prosecutions but also for a...

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Commentary Israel v. Hezbollah: Article 51, Self-Defense and Pre-emptive Strikes
Israel v. Hezbollah: Article 51, Self-Defense and Pre-emptive Strikes
JURIST Staff
July 29, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Article 51 of the UN Charter is probably broad enough to cover Israel's actions against Hezbollah in Lebanon following the kidnappings of its soldiers but would not...

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Commentary The Hezbollah-Israel War: Narratives and 'Legal Truth'
The Hezbollah-Israel War: Narratives and 'Legal Truth'
JURIST Staff
July 28, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist and Lebanese presidential candidate Chibli Mallat, professor of law and holder of the EU Jean Monnet Chair at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, says that the historical narratives of the sides in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict currently...

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Commentary The Targeting Framework of the Law of Armed Conflict
The Targeting Framework of the Law of Armed Conflict
JURIST Staff
July 26, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that use of force in...

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Commentary Stem Cells and Constitutional Duty
Stem Cells and Constitutional Duty
JURIST Staff
July 26, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law says that President Bush's veto of stem cell research legislation is an abuse of his constitutional authority antithetical to the rulings of the US Supreme Court... For...

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Commentary Keeping the 'Watch' in Terrorism Watch Lists
Keeping the 'Watch' in Terrorism Watch Lists
JURIST Staff
July 25, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Steinbock of the University of Toledo College of Law says that although watch lists may play a useful role in a broader terrorism prevention, their operation and consequences should be restricted and controlled in recognition of...

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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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