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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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Israel attorney general offers legal options for war conduct inquiry
Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday sent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a memo detailing the pros and cons of all possible legal methods the government may use to investigate the country's conduct in the Middle East conflict (More) |
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ICTY assigns counsel for Serb nationalist politician Seselj after 'disruptive' conduct
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has assigned counsel for Vojislav Seselj , ruling that Seselj may not conduct his own defense in his war crimes trial. According to the ICTY press release :In coming to its decision, t (More) |
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Fighting Words: The Abuse of Islam in Political Rhetoric
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that politicians' increasing use of abusive language to describe Islam in the context of the war on terror is symptomatic of multiple problems in Anglo-American democra (More) |
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Legal news views wanted
Welcome to JURIST's Hotline, where you can publish your insights on legal news as it happens.We've designed this service to do two things: to give lawyers, law professors, policy experts, and people caught up in legal events a platform where (More) |
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Israel justice minister resigns over sexual harassment charges
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced Friday that he will formally resign from his position on Sunday over allegations that he kissed a woman at a party without her consent. On Thursday, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided to (More) |
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Terror and the Enemies Within: Fighting the Right Battles for Britain
JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that if Britain must now fight "enemies within" in its escalated war on terror, it should be sure to fight the right (More) |
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Curbing Unlawful Surveillance: It Takes Two (Branches)
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that even in the wake of a federal court injunction, meaningful restrictions on the executive's domestic surveillance program require that both the judic (More) |
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UK to pardon WWI soldiers executed for desertion
The British government will likely pardon 306 British soldiers - a number that includes 25 Canadians, 22 Irishmen, and 5 New Zealanders - who were executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I , ending a 16-year campaign mounted by famili (More) |
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Japan PM visit to war shrine on WWII anniversary revives legal concerns
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni war shrine on the anniversary of the day when Emperor Hirohito surrendered World War II in 1945. The shrine honors all Japanese war dead, including war criminals, and Koiz (More) |
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