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Legislating Law of War Compliance: A High Price to Pay
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the recently published Army Field Manual (More) |
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Annan urges UN rights council to address Darfur crisis
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur crisis and not focus exclus (More) |
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Justice for 14,000? Apply international standards and change the Program...
Ben Davis : "Back in 1994 when the US ratified the Convention Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment ("CAT") it included reservations, understanding, and declarations ("RUD's) as regards the prohibitions ag (More) |
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US detaining 14,000 in overseas prisons 'beyond reach of established law': AP
About 14,000 people are currently being detained by the US in overseas prisons in uncertain legal circumstances, the Associated Press reported Sunday. Some 13,000 are being held in Iraq. US officials have told the Red Cross that 70 to 90 percent of (More) |
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Pakistan delays Sharia law changes after rape jurisdiction deal fails
The government of Pakistan has delayed introducing legislation that would change Islamic rape and adultery laws after a deal with Islamist parties over a watered-down version of the 2006 Protection of Women Bill fell through, according to Pakistan (More) |
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Terrorism Trials in the Light: A Way Ahead?
JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, says that for all the attention being paid to the procedures proposed for new US military commissions, how those procedures are used - who is to be tried, and (More) |
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A Plea to Congress on Military Commission Procedures
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that minimum due process guarantees under customary international law must not be denied when Congress attempts to articulate forms of procedure for new US military comm (More) |
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Five Years Later: Law and the Fog of 9/11
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that the lingering fog of the 9/11 attacks has clouded our perceptions, blurred our legal categories, and perhaps also compromised our judgment... For a month after September 11, 2001, (More) |
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The FCC and the Media One Year After Katrina
JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Baynes of the St. John's University School of Law says that to remedy racially-stereotyped reporting of events such as the 2005 Katrina disaster, the Federal Communications Commission should implement policies to in (More) |
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UN sends human rights experts to Middle East to probe war abuses
Four human rights experts appointed by the United Nations are heading to the Middle East to investigate possible abuses during the recent Mideast conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Representative on the human (More) |
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