Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar, who served as a Guantanamo Bay translator, told CBS's 60 Minutes that prisoner interrogations were staged to give visiting congressmen, senators and generals the impression that valuable...

Stephen Cambone , undersecretary of defense for intelligence, on Thursday told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered "ghost" detainees at US military installations such as Iraq's...

Sgt. Hasan Akbar , the US soldier convicted of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder for attacking comrades with a rifle and grenades in Kuwait during the early stages of the Iraq invasion, was sentenced to...

HR 240 . Read the full text of the...

Quintavalle v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, UK House of Lords, April 28, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Advice on the legality of a war with Iraq, Lord Goldmsith, Attorney General for England and Wales, to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, March 7, 2003 [released by the PMO April 28, 2005; indicating that a war could be considered...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday offered Democrats a compromise over judicial nominees that would allow appellate court nominations to be voted on but would retain the filibuster for district court nominees. Under...

A UK businessman was convicted on Wednesday of attempting to aid terrorists for selling a missile launcher to an informant claiming he was going to attack the US. Hemant Lakhani, a British citizen from India, was found guilty on...

As briefly reported on JURIST Wednesday evening, the US House late Wednesday voted to reverse GOP ethics rules on investigating House members that had divided the House Ethics Committee since the rules were approved in...

The UK House of Lords on Thursday upheld an appeals court ruling that the creation of "designer babies" to treat siblings with genetic disorders was allowed. Five law lords unanimously ruled that the Human...