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JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn Sulmasy, a professor of law at the US Coast Guard Academy who made the case for a US national security court on JURIST a year before a recent op-ed backing the proposal ran in the New...

The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sentenced Russian nuclear engineer Mark M. Kaushansky to 15 months in prison Thursday for his participation in a corruption scheme with former Russian Atomic Minister Yevgeny Adamov...

An Egyptian state security court convicted Muhammad Sayed Saber of spying for Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) Monday and sentenced the former Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency employee to life in prison. Two...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Capitol Hill proposals to repeal the 2003 Joint Resolution Authorizing Use of Force Against Iraq could be a prelude to a long-awaited confrontation between the legislative and...

Egypt police have arrested an Egyptian engineer on charges of spying on an atomic research program for Israel, AP reported Tuesday. According to Egyptian High State Security Prosecutor Hisham Badawi, Muhammad Sayed Saber allegedly gave files...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on North Korea passed in the wake of its nuclear test is a precedent-setting instance of aggressive collective action against would-be...

President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region...

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Tuesday that the White House has changed its position on military commissions , and now favors an approach that would try suspected terrorist detainees under...

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that the timing of the UN Security Council's passage of a Chapter VII resolution on Iran in the midst of an escalating...

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Article 51 of the UN Charter is probably broad enough to cover Israel's actions against Hezbollah in Lebanon following the kidnappings of its soldiers but would not...