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JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison by executive order of new US President Barack Obama pointedly leaves open the politically and legally troubling question of what...

Liz Griffith : "President-elect Obama's apparent decision to close Guantanamo has received wide support in the UK government. Nine UK nationals were returned to the UK in 2004 and 2005 following extensive campaigning...

The UK House of Commons on Tuesday gave final approval to the Climate Change Bill , which requires the country to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that not only should the incoming Obama administration close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, it should close down the stigmatized military base as a whole, coverting...

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao called for greater regulation of global financial markets Saturday at the closing of the Seventh Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 7) in Beijing, China. ASEM 7 is the seventh...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Flatt of the University of Houiston Law Center says the recent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to vacate the EPA's implementation of the Clean Air Interstate Rule reminds us that the statutory mandates of our...

The Bush administration abandoned plans to impose Clean Air Act (CAA) regulations on power plants and other stationary pollution sources after opposition from the oil industry, according to a report released Friday by the...

JURIST Guest Columnists Steven Solomon of the World Health Organization and David Kaye of the UCLA School of Law say that while the recently concluded Dublin Cluster Bomb Treaty represents a major advance in the law of war, it is...

The head executives of oil companies should be tried for crimes against humanity and nature for misleading the public about the impact of oil on global warming , according to a NASA climatologist who testified...

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that DHS will move forward with plans to use spy satellites as part of a domestic intelligence program designed to assist law enforcement agencies. In his...