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Politics at Guantanamo: The Former Chief Prosecutor Speaks
JURIST Guest Columnist Marc Falkoff of Northern Illinois University College of Law says the recent resignation of Guantanamo chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis and his remarkable public conversion from champion of the military commissions to (More) |
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Mukasey's Letter: Not Good Enough
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that Judge Michael Mukasey's written response to Senate Judiciary Committee follow-up inquiries concerning his views on the legality of waterboarding and tortur (More) |
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Former Guantanamo prosecutor claims political interference in commission cases
Former US Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday that politics is interfering with Guantanamo prosecutions . Davis said that recently-approved rules governing (More) |
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Australia foreign minister denies interference with Hicks plea bargain
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Tuesday denied allegations that the Australian government was involved in negotiating the plea bargain of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , refuting a report in Harper's Magazine that th (More) |
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Australia police to seek control order against ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) plan to subject former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks to a control order that would restrict his movements and communications as well as require him to check in with police once every year, according to Mond (More) |
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A Citizen's Demand of His Government: Release the ICRC Torture Report
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the International Committee of the Red Cross report on US interrogations of prisoners held at secret so-called CIA "black sites" should be released t (More) |
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David Hicks trial report [LCA]
The United States v. David Matthew Hicks: Final Report of the Independent Observer for the Law Council of Australia, Law Council of Australia, July 24, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Australia lawyers group says Hicks military commission trial 'a charade'
The Law Council of Australia, the country's national organization for lawyers, on Tuesday issued harsh criticism of the trial of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [Law Council backgrounder; JURIST news archive], saying the trial was &q (More) |
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Pentagon seeking reconsideration of Guantanamo dismissals
A Pentagon spokesman said Friday that the it will seek a reconsideration of rulings by two US military judges earlier this week dismissing all charges against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr and Yemeni detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan . Both judges found th (More) |
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No Unlawful Enemy Combatants at Guantanamo
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that while the Bush administration may attempt to fix the procedural problem that resulted in the recent dismissal of US militar (More) |
Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans
On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.
