New legislation aimed at improving security at American ports remained very much on the policy agenda of Republican and Democratic lawmakers Friday even in the wake of an announcement from United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World , read out by Sen. John Warner on the Senate floor Thursday, that it would transfer its newly-acquired operating [...]
Prosecutors in Milan announced Friday that after an investigation they have formally asked a judge to issue an indictment against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer, British barrister David Mills, for corruption in connection with false testimony that Mills allegedly gave at two trials in 1997 and 1998 involving Berlusconi broadcasting company [...]
Candace Stockey : "This week, I, along with our fearless leader, Elizabeth Seitz (Pitt Law 3L), and Andrew Wood (Pitt Law 1L), volunteered at New Orleans Legal Assistance (NOLAC), a non-profit legal aid center. Personally, I have focused on research for an appellate brief regarding an action to establish paternity following the alleged father's death. [...]
An Iraqi Justice Ministry official responding to a US military statement that the US will eventually close its operation at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and hand the facility back to Iraqi authorities said Friday that the Ministry would use the buildings as a storage location but not as a place to house detainees. Abd [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan of William Mitchell College of Law, former assistant general counsel at the CIA, says that the elaboration of secrecy under the Bush administration endangers the rule of law and is contrary to basic American principles… President Bush proudly admits that, several years ago, he secretly approved taps on some [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, says the recent report by UN Special Rapporteurs condemning the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is based on a false legal premise and comes to flawed conclusions, and that the [...]
Preparations for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others in a Beirut bombing in February 2005 are almost complete, according to a Lebanese minister meeting UN officials in New York Thursday. Lebanese Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh said, however, that funding details for [...]
Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist connections after his arrest in August 2001 for violating immigration laws, less than a month before the September 11 attacks. Brinkema [...]
Letter on force-feeding and restraint of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Dr. David Nicholl and others, The Lancet, March 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Kevin Baum and Ricardo Alvarado : "The Pro Bono Project's (PBP) mission is to provide free quality civil legal services to the poor by engaging volunteer attorneys to provide pro bono legal services. The Pro Bono Project has also expanded services to include some direct legal assistance. Kevin and I along with two Loyola Chicago [...]
