JURIST Senior Editor Sarah Paulsworth, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, is a Boren Fellow and has lived and worked in Azerbaijan. She writes about the impermissible pressure Azerbaijan’s Lawyers’ Collegium exerts on independent lawyers who defend dissidents, human rights activists and journalists… The past several months have seen a drastic increase [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Félix Tréguer, Policy and Legal Analyst at La Quadrature du Net, says that the recent ruling blocking the Copwatch website in France is just another instance of censorship under the Sarkozy government which prevents French citizens from learning of police abuse and engaging in democratic governance…
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on Tuesday urged key national and international players to address residual issues to ensure that the legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leona (SCSL) will be maintained after its closure in late 2011 with the completion of proceedings against former Liberian president Charles Taylor . The court will [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Kersten, an MPhil/PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says that Gaddafi’s death is just one example of worrying trend, in which legal justice is being replaced with targeted killings…
JURIST Guest Columnist Erick Posser, Villanova University School of Law Class of 2013, is a staff writer for the Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal and an Executive Board member of the Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Society. He writes on the implications of the Eight Circuit’s decision in Brady v. NFL…
The first Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs Josip Boljkovac was arrested Wednesday for war crimes committed from 1945-1946. Boljkovac, 89, was arrested near his home in Karlovac in connection with the deaths of fascist soldiers and sympathizers post World War II. The investigation against Boljkovac involves alleged executions of at least 30,000 Utasha (fascist) troops [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday denied a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee from seeking damages from banks and third parties for the victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Irving Picard, who was designated by the court in 2008 as trustee of the assets seized from the [...]
Tunisian courts will review a request for the extradition of former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi placed by the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) on November 8, according to a statement made Wednesday by al-Mahmoudi’s lawyer Mabrouk Kourchid. Al-Mahmoudi has been held in Tunisia since September when he was detained while attempting to illegally [...]
Egypt will amend its constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections, according to a Wednesday report by state-run media outlet Al Ahram. Chairman of the High Commission for Elections , Judge Abdel Moaz Ibrahim, suggested amending Article 39 of the constitutional declaration to allow for voting at embassies and consulates to [...]
Lawyers charged with defending detainees at Guantanamo Bay said Tuesday that procedures and practices employed by the US government make it impossible for them to do their jobs. In a letter directed to the attention of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, the attorneys cited the problems they face in carrying out their [...]
