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Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects have now been transferred to the De (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo detainee's lawsuit could challenge Australian secrecy laws
A lawsuit by former Australian Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib against the Australian government could become the first court challenge to new security secrecy laws passed in 2004 . Australian prosecutors say that some of the evidence used in any (More) |
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Congress Should Champion the Advice of Military Lawyers
JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England School of Law say that Congress needs to step in to counter the Bush administration's apparent efforts to limit the ability of uniformed military lawyers to advise on futu (More) |
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Bush federal appeals court nominations prompt criticism
President Bush announced on Wednesday the nominations of five people to serve as federal appeals court judges on the US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits. The nomination of the five conservatives has already caused concer (More) |
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Navy lawyer charged with leaking secret Guantanamo Bay detainee names list
A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps was charged Tuesday with relaying secret national defense information to a person outside the government "with intent or reason to believe that the said information was to be (More) |
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Saudi Arabia frees former Guantanamo detainees cleared of crimes
Saudi Arabia has released nine of 29 former Guantanamo detainees in its custody on Tuesday after investigations revealed that they had not committed any crimes. Charges are still being reviewed for the remainder. Earlier this year, the US transferr (More) |
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Elderly detainee using walker among latest five transferred from Guantanamo
Guantanamo's oldest known detainee was among the five US-held prisoners transferred to Afghanistan last week, according to his lawyer who found out about the release over the weekend in a US Department of Justice e-mail. Peter King said that Ha (More) |
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Geneva Conventions in the 21st Century
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that as we celebrate the universality of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, we must recognize that the murder, rape, maiming, mutilation, and pillaging of non-combatants w (More) |
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New Orleans judge to start review of prisoner releases one year after Katrina
New Orleans Judge Arthur Hunter is slated to start reviewing the records of New Orleans prisoners in view of their possible release on Tuesday, the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina , which devastated the city and its court system last yea (More) |
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Five Guantanamo detainees transferred to Afghanistan
The US Department of Defense announced Saturday that it has transferred to Afghanistan five detainees formerly held as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay . It is unclear where these detainees are from and why they were selected for transfer. More (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
