JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that despite the potential political cost to President Obama of investigating the torture memos released by the former Bush administration, failure to act on the memos...
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The US Senate on Tuesday began debate on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. While it is believed that Sotomayor will be confirmed to...
The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report Tuesday calling for an independent inquiry into allegations regarding government complicity in the torture of UK terrorism suspects in Pakistan and elsewhere. Maintaining that complicity...
Strong-arm Rule or Rule of Law? Prospects for Legal Reform in Russia
JURIST Guest Columnist Pamela A. Jordan, an associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) who writes on politics and human rights developments in Russia, says that the recent murder of Chechnya human rights activist Natalia Estemirova may...
Ranking Republican on the US Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) opposed the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Monday, maintaining that she lacks "deep-rooted convictions" needed to...
Sotomayor committee vote delayed a week by Senate Republicans
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday delayed a vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at the request of Senate Republicans. The vote on whether to send the...
Venezuela judge removed from case against Chavez government critic
Venezuela judge Alicia Torres said Monday that she has been removed from her position presiding over a case against Globovision TV owner Guillermo Zuloaga. Zuloaga has been charged with usury and conspiracy to...
JURIST Guest Columnist Laura Gómez of the University of New Mexico School of Law says that although Senators Graham and Sessions were technically right about the political consequences that would befall them if they had said anything along the lines...
US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor reiterated her commitment to applying the law fairly to the facts of each case as members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee concluded their...
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael A. Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center says that the nomination and expected confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a Latina, shows how far Latino lawyers and the Latino community in the United States have...