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Sadat nephew starts sit-in protesting military trial for assassination claims
The nephew of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began a sit-in in front of Egypt's parliament on Tuesday to protest his upcoming military trial for implicating the Egyptian army in his uncle's assassination 25 years ago . Talat (More) |
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Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart gets 28-month sentence for helping terror client
Convicted civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart received a sentence of 28 months Monday. Stewart was convicted [JURIST report; JURIST video] of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists for helping imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman co (More) |
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Pluralism and the Iraqi Constitution: Critical Issues For All of Us
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and the EU Jean Monnet Professor in Law at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, Lebanon, says that Iraq's constitutional response to pluralism may yet make it an e (More) |
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Sadat nephew faces Egypt military court after assassination allegations
A nephew of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat who is now an Egyptian opposition MP associated with the Ahrar party appeared before an Egyptian military court Wednesday on charges of making defamatory remarks regarding the 1981 assassination of (More) |
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Italian prosecutors complete CIA kidnapping probe
Italian prosecutors Saturday announced the end of their investigation into the alleged CIA kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP timeline] of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in 2003. The cleric, also known as Abu Omar, was seized on the str (More) |
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Appeals court hears post-9/11 detainee lawsuit against Ashcroft
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sharply questioned federal officials Wednesday during oral arguments in the case of a Pakistani man who says he was detained because of his race, religion or national origin soon (More) |
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The Unraveling of the President's 'War on Terrorism'
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the Bush administration's post-9/11 detainee policies - most recently evidenced in the proposed mili (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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Long sentence urged for rights lawyer convicted of helping terror client
Federal prosecutors have asked that a judge sentence civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 30 years in prison, saying that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession ... deserves to be severely punished." Stewart was convi (More) |
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The Legal Legacy of 9/11: Reflections Five Years On
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the International Commission of Jurists and former Chief Justice of South Africa, says that although the threat of terrorism is real, five years after the September 11 attacks on (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.
