China threatens to veto "dangerous" resolution expanding UN Security Council
Chinese UN Ambassador Wang Guangya has said China is opposed to a recently-introduced resolution that would expand the UN Security Council to include Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. In an interview with AP...
Japan joining Moscow WWII ceremonies despite no peace treaty
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to Moscow Sunday to attend ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, despite the absence of a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities between...
International brief ~ Kyrgyz elections postponed as parliament mulls Akayev trial
Leading Thursday's international legal news, the continuing dispute over how to remove former Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev has resulted in the postponement of the national elections originally scheduled for June. Akayev signed legal resignation papers Monday [JURIST...
The US Department of Justice announced Friday that the government will pay over $25 million to Holocaust survivors, settling a long term class action suit over the US Army's pilfering of the Hungarian Gold Train [Presidential Committee...
Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University:"I have caught just bits and pieces of the Gonzales confirmation hearings for Attorney General today. In general, he does not seem to have faced especially bitter attack - on the contrary, I...
In an exclusive JURIST op-ed before his testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General and now President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, says that Judge Alberto Gonzales' reading...
Deutsch v. Turner, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 21, 2003 . Read the opinion here ....
