France May Invoke NATO Article 5 In Wake of Paris ISIS Attacks
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law argues that France has the legal right to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty following the Paris ISIS attacks...Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the...
Amnesty International (AI) announced Tuesday it is setting up an office in Nigeria to investigate human rights abuses. In a showing of "solidarity with the victims of human rights violations," AI has established a permanent...
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin, of Lewis and Clark Law School, discusses the effectiveness of TSA screening policies and how those policies affect our privacy rights...In the fall of 2001, I went on the market to become a law professor,...
A former aide of Osama Bin Laden has been found guilty on Thursday of plotting the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. Extradited from the UK to the US...
US judge sentences Egyptian lawyer to 25 years on terrorism charges
Adel Abdel Bary, a member of al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan. The Egyptian national pleaded guilty last September to threatening...
Coming to Ukraine: The Hypocrisy of the American Understanding of the International Law
Curtis Doebbler, Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations
Pakistan court disqualifies former president Musharraf from upcoming election
A three-member appellate tribunal on Tuesday disqualified former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf from running in the upcoming parliamentary election for the remote northern district of Chitral. Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month...
The UK High Court in London on Monday denied an application for bail by Muslim cleric Abu Qatada . Qatada had challenged a previous ruling that had denied him bail on...
Four British men pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting an al Qaeda inspired attack against the London Stock Exchange (LSE) . In December 2010, nine men who met through radical Islamist groups were charged and taken into custody [JURIST...
JURIST Guest Columnist Perveen Ali, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is currently researching issues of international refugee and human rights law. Here she discusses the challenges Iraqi refugees face...
