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Commentary Why Hamdan is Right about Conspiracy Liability
Why Hamdan is Right about Conspiracy Liability
JURIST Staff
March 30, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the government's attempt to charge Salim Ahmed Hamdan with conspiracy to commit war crimes - a...

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Commentary Speaking Truth to Power: US International Lawyers at a Crossroads
Speaking Truth to Power: US International Lawyers at a Crossroads
JURIST Staff
March 29, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that at its 100th annual meeting this week in Washington, DC, the American Society of International Law is being called upon to take a stand on...

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Commentary Labor Law Protests in France: 1968 Encore?
Labor Law Protests in France: 1968 Encore?
JURIST Staff
March 28, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Pascale Duparc Portier of the National University of Ireland (Galway) Faculty of Law says that the mass protests in France against the new First Employment Contract (CPE) legislation may be reminiscent of the 1968 Paris student uprising,...

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Commentary Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'
Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'
JURIST Staff
March 27, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Satterthwaite of New York University School of Law says that US actions in the war on terror - especially the practice of extraordinary rendition - make a mockery of formal US insistence on the rule of...

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Commentary US Torture as a Tort? Expanding Remedies for Victims
US Torture as a Tort? Expanding Remedies for Victims
JURIST Staff
March 24, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Seamon of the University of Idaho School of Law says that in light of ever-increasing evidence of detainee abuse by US personnel or parties acting with the approval or complicity of the United States, Congress should...

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Commentary Handing Over Charles Taylor: It's Time
Handing Over Charles Taylor: It's Time
JURIST Staff
March 22, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, now at Syracuse University College of Law, says it's time for Nigeria to hand over former Liberian president Charles Taylor for trial on war crimes...

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Commentary The Army and the Constitution: Time for Congress to Step In
The Army and the Constitution: Time for Congress to Step In
JURIST Staff
March 21, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that the President's stretching of US military resources close to the breaking point in Iraq raises a constitutional issue demanding Congressional intervention ... Recently, much...

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Commentary Strengthening Counter-Terrorism Laws in Australia
Strengthening Counter-Terrorism Laws in Australia
JURIST Staff
March 19, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Philip Ruddock, Attorney-General of Australia, outlines Australia's recently strengthened counter-terror laws, describing them as an appropriate, proportionate and balanced response by the Australian Government to emerging security threats... Following the terrorist attacks on the London transport...

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Commentary Secret Wiretaps: The Need for Legislative Reforms
Secret Wiretaps: The Need for Legislative Reforms
JURIST Staff
March 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Ken Gormley of Duquesne University School of Law says that issues arising out of the President's domestic surveillance program are best addressed not by sweeping proposals of censure or legalization, but rather by carefully-crafted legislative reforms... The...

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Commentary A Death in The Hague: The Milosevic Trial and the Rule of Law
A Death in The Hague: The Milosevic Trial and the Rule of Law
JURIST Staff
March 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnists Henry King, Jr., a former prosecutor for the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal now at Case Western Law School, and David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of...

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Ford pardoned Nixon for Watergate

On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford, in a televised address to the American people, pardoned ex-President Richard Nixon for any offenses committed in association with the Watergate break-in.

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On September 8, 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco was signed between 49 nations and Japan, ending World War II in the Pacific region. In addition to dismantling the Japanese Empire, the accord also provided for compensation to be paid by Japan to prisoners of war and civilians who were victimized by Japan during the War. Communist China did not participate in the San Francisco negotiations and thus signed the separate Treaty of Tapei with Japan.

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