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JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the new "compromise" language on detainee treatment included in the latest version of the military commissions...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday urged global action to combat three challenges facing humanity - human rights and the rule of law, security, and development - as the UN General Assembly opened its 61st session...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that as we celebrate the universality of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, we must recognize that the murder, rape, maiming, mutilation, and pillaging of non-combatants worldwide goes on...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that politicians' increasing use of abusive language to describe Islam in the context of the war on terror is symptomatic of multiple problems in Anglo-American democracy and culture......

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was stripped of British citizenship just one day after he was secretly made a citizen in July, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday. Hicks' court battle for British citizenship ended...

Australia will pursue the return of David Hicks from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay if new charges are not brought and a military tribunal formed by November, Australian...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, a former judge advocate who helped develop and teach the US Department of Defense Law of War Program for almost 20 years, says that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...

US Army prosecutors charged 1st Lt. Ehren Watada late Wednesday in connection with his refusal to deploy to Iraq with the rest of his unit last week. Watada...

A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The...

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the justices of the US Supreme Court have demonstrated how fundamental tenets...