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JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...

The first war crimes trial in the history of Afghanistan began Monday in Kabul as a former Afghan intelligence chief faced charges of authorizing the arrest, torture, and mass killings of hundreds of opponents of the country's Communist government...

During a press conference Monday morning, US President George W. Bush defended his authorization of the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on US residents , saying he has the constitutional responsibility and constitutional authority as...

Jordan's King Abdullah II has urged the Jordanian parliament to quickly approve new anti-terrorism legislation, drafted two weeks ago in the wake of last month's hotel bombing that left 57 people dead. During...

A bombing at a Bangladesh court complex Thursday during a strike by lawyers in the country has wounded 25. The blast is the latest in a series of bombings outside courthouses and reportedly occurred near a...

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the phenomenon of hyper-technical...

Lawyers in Bangladesh Thursday entered their second day of a boycott on the court system to protest the suicide bombings which killed two judges earlier this week, as police increased efforts to find individuals suspected to have...

The Australian government is pushing forward with controversial anti-terror proposals despite criticism that arrests made earlier this week during a counter-terrorism swoop indicate the legislation is unnecessary. Although Parliament hastily approved an amendment...

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...

JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law says that new federal legislation immunizing gun makers from tort liability might protect them, but not the innocent people who are so often victims of gun...