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Narrowing US War Crimes Law: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too?
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, a former judge advocate who helped develop and teach the US Department of Defense Law of War Program for almost 20 years, says that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fai (More) |
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Bush administration defends military commissions plan before senators
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed before a Senate panel Wednesday that the Bush administration is drafting legislation authorizing military commissions for terror detainees that will allow hearsay evidence and coerced testimony to be (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee assaults on US guards [US DOD]
Records concerning assault, harassment or humiliation of US personnel by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US Department of Defense . Review the full text of the records. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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US Army general who ran Gitmo, oversaw Iraq detentions resigns with honors
US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller , the former commander of Guantanamo Bay , retired from the Army Monday with honors. Miller ran Guantanamo from 2002 to 2004, and served as a consultant at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during 2003, where he (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay detainees attacked guards hundreds of times: DOD records
Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos released through a Freedom of Information Act request by conservative legal group (More) |
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UN panel slams US rights practices in wide-ranging report
The UN Human Rights Committee slammed current US rights practices in a report released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee of the Red Cross acc (More) |
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Appeals court lets government file more arguments in Guantanamo cases
The US Court of Appeal for the DC Circuit will allow the Bush administration to file briefs in yet another round of legal arguments challenging hundreds of lawsuits filed by detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . A court panel has outlined a schedule f (More) |
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White House circulating draft military commissions bill
The Bush administration has begun circulating a draft bill to authorize military trials for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report in Wednesday's New York Times. The draft bill, written by acting Assistant Attorney General S (More) |
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Spain high court frees ex-Guantanamo detainee
The first prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to be turned over to a foreign government for prosecution was released Monday by the Spanish Supreme Court , which found that the evidence against him was insufficient to support a conviction. Hamed Abderrahaman (More) |
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Lawyers argue for release of British residents held at Guantanamo
The UK Court of Appeal heard arguments Monday in a case where the families of three Guantanamo Bay detainees who were UK residents prior to their detention are seeking an order requiring the British government to lobby the US for the release of th (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.
