The Military Commissions Act of 2006: 'Play it Again, [Uncle] Sam'
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 again puts US JAG officers in the awkward position of litigating the shortfalls of a military legal...
US urges Serbia to increase efforts to capture war crimes fugitives
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...
Alan Mansfield : "On October 18, 2006 the City of Escondido adopted local Ordinance No. 2006-38R "Establishing Penalties for the Harboring of Illegal Aliens in the City of Escondido", finding that the...
International lawyers group cancels Cambodia genocide trial training
The International Bar Association (IBA) , the leading global organization of legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies, announced Friday that it has canceled a training program for Cambodian lawyers representing defendants in the genocide trial...
Canada PM proposes tough gun crime law requiring some suspects to make case for bail
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined with Ontario Liberal Party Premier Dalton McGinty and Toronto Mayor David Mills Thursday to lay out the terms of proposed federal gun crime legislation being...
Mexico report blames government for crimes against humanity in 'dirty war'
Former Mexican Presidents Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1964-1970) , Luis Echeverria (1970-1976) , and Jose Lopez Portillo (1976-1982) were responsible for "crimes against humanity" in connection with the massacres and tortures of hundreds of leftist...
Ethiopians demonstrate against US female circumcision conviction
About 300 protesters demonstrated Saturday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia , calling for a US retrial of Khalid Adem, a Ethiopian immigrant to the United States who earlier this month was convicted of circumcising his...
The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Wednesday to "put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system support the police and all those responsible for the public's safety" in its new legislative...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Human Rights Chief for the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, says that the trial of Saddam Hussein has abjectly failed to do justice to his victims, provide a deterrent to future dictators, or...
JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that the veil of secrecy with which the United States has shrouded the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects makes the rule of law impossible to...
