JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says the current proposal for a new UN Human Rights Council may not be perfect, but it is far better than either the current UN Human Rights Commission or the more exclusionary type of Human [...]

US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Reggie B. Walton, March 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte marked the sudden death of Slobodan Milosevic Saturday by reiterating her call for the remaining fugitives from the Hague war crimes tribunal to be brought to justice and tried. She said in a statement:The death of Slobodan Milosevic, a few weeks before the completion of his trial, will prevent [...]

US lawmakers have indicated that they intend to press ahead with a vote next week on legislation to block the transfer of operations at 6 US ports to United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World. The controversial deal is widely considered to be dead after DPW announced Thursday that it would transfer its operating rights, newly [...]

A New York federal judge Friday issued a highly-unusual classified ruling rejecting a defense motion to dismiss a US case brought against two Albany mosque members originally charged with money laundering and supporting terrorism after their arrests in a government sting operation. The designation of the ruling as secret and not merely sealed means that [...]

Pentagon officials said Friday that the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay would continue despite opposition from doctors who signed an open letter published in the British medical journal Lancet earlier this week. The letter, endorsed by 263 doctors from seven countries , called for the US to halt force-feeding by stomach tubes and [...]

After a day and half of deliberation a federal jury Friday found former mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell not guilty of racketeering, fraud and bribery charges, although he was found guilty on three counts of tax evasion. Campbell, mayor from 1994 to 2002, was charged two years later with taking bribes of more than $160,000 [...]

Courtney Murphy : "Like so much in New Orleans, both pre- and post-Katrina, the Juvenile Court system is a dichotomy, its two faces coexisting uneasily. Looking at the system as it is now, I feel hope and also an overwhelming despair. Our supervisor is with the Juvenile Court in order to reform the system and [...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby be given limited access to presidential security briefing transcripts to assist him in his defense against perjury charges in the CIA leak case . Libby claims that he was so busy with security matters around the time of the leak [...]

Press release, Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell at the detention unit, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the statement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.