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Trying Charles Taylor: Justice Here, There, Anywhere?
JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that the debate over where to try ex-Liberian president Cha (More) |
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Supreme Court's Kennedy urges lawyers to heed Darfur genocide
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday urged greater attention to reports of genocide in Sudan's Darfur region . In a speech to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC, Kennedy said tha (More) |
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Why Hamdan is Right about Conspiracy Liability
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the government's attempt to charge Salim Ahmed Hamdan with conspiracy to commit war cr (More) |
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The Milosevic Trial Legacy: If Not Outcome, Hope
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that what is most important about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the wake of his sudden death in jail is not its lack of outcome, but rather the hope its example hold (More) |
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A Danish Trojan Horse: Law and the Muhammad Cartoons
JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons b (More) |
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Former Rwanda president loses appeal against incitement conviction
The Rwandan Supreme Court on Friday rejected the appeal of former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu , who had asked the court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with criminals. Bizimun (More) |
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UN prosecutor seeks to transfer Rwanda genocide case to Norway
Hassan Bubacar Jallow , lead prosecutor for the UN-affiliated International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] asked Wednesday that the Tribunal transfer the case of former Rwanda official Michel Bagaragaza (More) |
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ICTR upholds genocide acquittal of two former Rwanda government officials
The appellate chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday upheld a trial chamber acquittal of two high-ranking government officials accused of genocide and massive crimes against humanity during the 1994 crisis. F (More) |
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Prosecutors seek retrial of two Rwanda genocide suspects
Prosecutors at an appeals hearing in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to overturn the genocide acquittals of two former Rwandan officials. One-time Rwandan Transport Minister Andre Ntagerura and (More) |
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French judge to probe role of French troops in Rwanda genocide
French Judge Brigitte Raynaud has decided to open a formal investigation into accusations that French soldiers may have acted in complicity with Hutu militias who killed between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Several R (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
