JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that the President's stretching of US military resources close to the breaking point in Iraq raises a constitutional issue demanding Congressional intervention … Recently, much attention has been paid in the media to the legality of many of the Bush [...]

Maj. Michael Mori, the US Marine Corps lawyer representing Australian terror suspect David Hicks in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay , said Monday that the "imbalanced system" at Guantanamo presents a significant risk that innocent individuals will be convicted while truly guilty suspects are given an avenue to challenge their convictions. Speaking during a [...]

US military investigators are looking into allegations that made by Iraqi police that US troops killed 11 civilians in their home in Ishaqi last week, a military spokesman said Tuesday. US forces said they approached the house to arrest an al Qaeda suspect and that they only opened fire after being fired at first. They [...]

A classic legislative tug-of-war between the UK House of Lords and House of Commons continued Monday as peers once again sent the controversial Identity Cards Bill back to MPs after a majority of 36 voted to keep the cards voluntary through 2011, overriding a Commons-endorsed government plan to require ID registration for all British citizens [...]

United States v. Quattrone, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, March 20, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

French labor and student groups Monday called a day of strikes for March 28 after the French goverment refused to withdraw its recently passed First Employment Contract (CPE) , which allows French employers to hire workers under the age of 26 for a conditional two-year period during which they can be fired without cause. A [...]

The court-appointed advocates for the late Slobodan Milosevic have asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to release secret medical files that may provide further information on Milosevic's death. British barristers Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins say they are acting at the behest of Milosevic's son Marko. Milosevic died at The Hague earlier [...]

International Election Observation Mission: Presidential Election, Republic of Belarus, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, March 21, 2006 . Excerpt: It is clear that this election did not meet OSCE commitments and international electoral standards. The arbitrary abuse of state power, obviously designed to protect the incumbent President, went far beyond acceptable practice. The [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on whether unsworn non-testimonial statements made by crime victims to 911 operators or to police officers at crime scenes are inadmissible at trials of criminal defendants. In the cases of Davis v. Washington and Hammon v. Indiana , the Court focused on whether the rights of [...]

A Somali advocacy group claimed Monday that the US Navy was illegally present in Somali waters when its ships launched an unprovoked attack on a small vessel over the weekend, taking twelve occupants into custody. The Navy said the vessel was being investigated for suspected piracy when it unexpectedly fired shots at the USS Cape [...]