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Commentary Pentagon Process Subverted? The Lost Battle of Alberto Mora
Pentagon Process Subverted? The Lost Battle of Alberto Mora
JURIST Staff
February 22, 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 the disclosure of former...

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Commentary A Danish Trojan Horse: Law and the Muhammad Cartoons
A Danish Trojan Horse: Law and the Muhammad Cartoons
JURIST Staff
February 19, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons before the worldwide violence...

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Commentary Hear No Evil: Congress, FISA and NSA Surveillance
Hear No Evil: Congress, FISA and NSA Surveillance
JURIST Staff
February 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that decisions by the Republican leaders of two congressional committees not to launch probes into warrantless NSA surveillance of Americans contrary to FISA, the Foreign Intelligence...

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Commentary Haiti's Election: Right Result, For the Wrong Reason
Haiti's Election: Right Result, For the Wrong Reason
JURIST Staff
February 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put...

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Commentary Political Discrimination and Academic Freedom
Political Discrimination and Academic Freedom
JURIST Staff
February 15, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says it's high time for universities to proscribe not only discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation, but also...

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Commentary For the Sake of Warriors: Accepting the Limits of the Law of War
For the Sake of Warriors: Accepting the Limits of the Law of War
JURIST Staff
February 9, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist 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 the limits of the...

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Commentary Retrying Merck: The Once and Future Federal Vioxx Suits
Retrying Merck: The Once and Future Federal Vioxx Suits
JURIST Staff
February 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says Merck faces new legal difficulties as a retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins... The retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins Monday with...

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Commentary Reprimand for Iraqi Detainee Homicide: Is This Military Justice?
Reprimand for Iraqi Detainee Homicide: Is This Military Justice?
JURIST Staff
February 3, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the ostensibly-light sentence for Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr., the highest-ranking US soldier to face a court-martial for abusing an Iraqi detainee,...

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Commentary The Supreme Court and Death With Dignity in Oregon
The Supreme Court and Death With Dignity in Oregon
JURIST Staff
February 1, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says that the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law is a major step towards ensuring dignified choices to terminally ill Oregonians... On January 17, 2006,...

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Commentary High Time for Justice: The US and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
High Time for Justice: The US and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
JURIST Staff
January 31, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Craig Etcheson, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (2005) and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, says the time has come for the United States...

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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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