Obama not ruling out prosecution of Bush officials for human rights violations
US President-elect Barack Obama said during an interview broadcast Sunday that he has not ruled out prosecuting officials for rights abuses committed under the Bush administration. Asked whether he would appoint a...
Pentagon appoints new chief judge for US military commissions
The Pentagon announced Monday that US Army Col. James Pohl , who presided over several court-martial proceedings resulting from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal , will be the new chief judge for the US military...
Supreme Court remands torture lawsuit by ex-Guantanamo detainees
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded the case of Rasul v. Myers for further consideration in light of the Court's June decision...
US detainee abuses approved by senior officials: Senate report
US senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday released the executive summary of a Senate Armed Services Committee report that says senior US officials are to blame for...
A National Security Court: Restoring the Balance Between Security and Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that creation of a special US domestic court to try terrorism suspects need not be an exercise in "rights denial" but can in fact be a...
Iraqi SOFA Jurisdiction Over US Soldiers: A Matter of Necessity
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the American concession in the supposedly final version of the Status of Forces Agreement governing US troops in Iraq that would put US soldiers...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...
Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home...
New Pentagon policy for interrogation oversight is an outbreak of common sense
Malcolm Nance : "On Friday the Department of Defense released news of a revision to the 2005 DoD directive regarding the interrogation of prisoners by a wide range of non-DoD agencies and...
Revised Pentagon directive requires monitoring of non-DOD interrogations
The US Defense Department (DOD) has released a revised directive mandating military supervision of intelligence interrogations and questioning conducted by other US government agencies, foreign governments and contractors. The directive, issued October 9 by Deputy...
