JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that while self-defense (in the classic model) is the legal basis for Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces' re-articulation of proportionality and collateral damage in that context is a new development in international law that carries significant [...]
Cambodian judges in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Friday denied corruption allegations made against them after a court in Phnom Penh agreed to hear a case against two of the judges alleged to have offered a portion of their salaries to the government as kickbacks in exchange for receiving their appointment [...]
The son of a former president of Liberia now on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity was sentenced to a 97-year jail term in the US Friday by US District Court for the Southern District of Florida for committing torture in Liberia. Charles Arthur Emmanuel, son of Charles Taylor was found guilty by [...]
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury : "A year and a half after the American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Raed Jarrar, the defendants – two Transportation Security Administration officials and JetBlue Airways – agreed to pay him $240,000 to settle his claims that they discriminated against [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on rehearing Friday that it had no jurisdiction over Guantanamo detainees' petitions for subject-matter review of "enemy combatant" status decisions by Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) in the wake of the US Supreme Court's ruling last year in Boumediene v. Bush that found [...]
The office of the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Thursday indicted eight Bosnian Serbs on charges of taking part in war crimes early in the Bosnian war. Damir Ivankovic, Zoran Babic, Gordan Djuric, Milorad Radakovic, Milorad Skrbic, Ljubisa Cetic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic are suspected to have taken part in the August 21, 1992 [...]
US President-elect Barack Obama on Friday announced his nominations for the top posts in the US intelligence community, designating Admiral Dennis Blair to be Director of National Intelligence and Leon Panetta to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) . Obama also announced that John Brennan will serve as Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy [...]
Matter of Enrique Salas Compean, Matter of Sylla Bangaly, Matter of J-E-C, et al., US Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, January 7, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday ruled that Congress acted beyond its authority when it enacted a law that allows indefinite federal civil commitment of "sexually dangerous" offenders beyond the end of their sentences. The indefinite civil commitment was authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 4248 , [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in four cases. In the consolidated cases of Republic of Iraq v. Beaty and Republic of Iraq v. Simon , the Court will consider whether Iraq has sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of US courts in cases involving alleged misdeeds that occurred during the Saddam Hussein regime. The [...]
