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New Rules of the Game: The UK Terrorism Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings threatens t (More) |
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Waiting for Scopes: The Future of Intelligent Design
JURIST Guest Columnist David DeWolf says that the Kitzmiller intelligent design case may settle whether the Pennsylvania school district that put "intelligent design" into its curriculum was acting under impermissible religious animus, but (More) |
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US Republicans propose Mexican border wall to combat illegal immigration
Republican legislators have proposed a bill to build a 2,000 mile wall at the border between US and Mexico in order to keep illegal immigrants out. The True Enforcement and Border Security Act also calls for thousands of new border patrol officers, (More) |
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UK judge drops murder, abuse charges against soldiers in Iraqi civilian death
A UK judge has directed court-martial panel members to issue a 'not guilty' verdict for all seven British soldiers charged with the murdering an Iraqi civilian in southern Iraq. The seven paratroopers were accused of killing an Iraqi civil (More) |
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Perjury, Lies and Degrading Treatment: The Case for the McCain Amendment
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says passing the McCain Amendment prohibiting coercive interrogation practices would be an important step forward towards re-establishing America's reputation for respecting (More) |
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Putting Oil-for-Food in Perspective
JURIST Guest Columnist R. Dobie Langenkamp, Director of the National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute at the University of Tulsa School of Law, says that for all the bad publicity surrounding the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program, the ov (More) |
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Lawyer witnessed Guantanamo suicide attempt
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan an American lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee Jumah Dossari , recently became the first outsider to witness an attempted suicide at the military prison. Human rights advocates say Dossari timed the attempt so that it would (More) |
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Why Americans Don't Care About GTMO, and Why They Should
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that Americans should start caring about the denial of legal process to prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) not just out of sentimentality or because it's t (More) |
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The Reckoning: Trying Saddam Hussein
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Greg Kehoe, US Department of Justice Regime Crimes Liaison to the Iraqi Special Tribunal in Baghdad from March 2004 until March 2005, says that while the current Ad Dujayl case against Saddam Hussein is not about the bi (More) |
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Executive Privilege and the Withdrawal of Harriet Miers
JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Schroeder of Duke University Law School says that the claim that "executive privilege" concerns required the withdrawal of US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has been overstated, and that senatorial re (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
