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Commentary What the Detainee Treatment Act Really Means for Guantanamo Detainees
What the Detainee Treatment Act Really Means for Guantanamo Detainees
JURIST Staff
April 20, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the author of an amicus brief on Guantanamo detainee appeals recently filed on behalf of legal scholars in...

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Commentary Courts-Martial In Lieu of Leadership: Not Enough Military Justice
Courts-Martial In Lieu of Leadership: Not Enough Military Justice
JURIST Staff
April 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the prosecution and conviction of low-ranking soldiers like US Army dog handler Sergeant Michael J. Smith for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib should...

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Commentary Forget Censure, Discipline Bush on Iran
Forget Censure, Discipline Bush on Iran
JURIST Staff
April 13, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that instead of censuring the president, Congress should restrain the foreign excesses of the Bush presidency and restore respect for international law by cutting off funds...

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Commentary Ebbers to Scrushy to Skilling and Lay
Ebbers to Scrushy to Skilling and Lay
JURIST Staff
April 12, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that defense lawyers in recent corporate fraud cases are not seeking to introduce reasonable doubts that might lead a jury to acquit their clients, but in...

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Commentary Slippery Slopes and the War on Terror: Lessons from Israel
Slippery Slopes and the War on Terror: Lessons from Israel
JURIST Staff
April 10, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Ron Dudai of the SOAS School of Law at the University of London (UK) says that a recent ruling by Israel's Supreme Court constitutes an important judicial recognition that giving discretion to state security services in fighting...

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Commentary The Moral Choice in Immigration Policy
The Moral Choice in Immigration Policy
JURIST Staff
April 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Bill Hing of UC Davis School of Law says that immigration legislation now being debated in Congress presents lawmakers with a moral choice, and that in its own economic, social, and national security interests it's time for...

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Commentary Suing Ma Bell to Stop NSA Wiretapping: Back to the Future?
Suing Ma Bell to Stop NSA Wiretapping: Back to the Future?
JURIST Staff
April 5, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that the Electronic Frontier Foundation's recent suit for damages against telecommunications giant AT&T for its...

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Commentary Trying Charles Taylor: Justice Here, There, Anywhere?
Trying Charles Taylor: Justice Here, There, Anywhere?
JURIST Staff
April 4, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that the debate over where to try ex-Liberian...

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Commentary Padilla's Real Message: The Grace Period is Over
Padilla's Real Message: The Grace Period is Over
JURIST Staff
April 4, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Freiman, one of the attorneys representing Jose Padilla on his habeas petition, says that the concurrence in the US Supreme Court's rejection of Padilla's certiorari petition stands as a warning to the government that when...

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Commentary The UN Human Rights Council: Opportunities and Challenges
The UN Human Rights Council: Opportunities and Challenges
JURIST Staff
April 3, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, says that the creation of a new Human Rights Council to replace the Commission could be a major step forward for human rights protection, but...

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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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