JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon... Hezbollah's surprising television...
Search Results for: 2006-10-31
UK Enron bankers seek delay in US trial to allow search for new lawyers
Two British men who face fraud charges in the US related to the Enron scandal are searching for new lawyers, according to papers filed Monday by counsel for a third British man also facing trial. The...
Federal appeals court orders outspoken judge off Indian Trust case
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American...
The Future of the EU Constitution: Escaping the Ratification Maze
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that while it's too early to abandon the troubled European constitution, significant strategic and political adjustments are required before...
Bush order limits private property seizures by federal government
President Bush issued an executive order Friday directing that US federal agencies and government departments may not seize private property unless the taking is for public use "and not merely for the purpose of advancing the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that although the convictions of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in the Enron corporate fraud trial offer several important lessons, it's not clear that all of...
ICTY sentences Bosnian Croat militia leader to 12 years for war crimes
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday sentenced former Bosnia Croat militia commander Ivica Rajic to twelve years in prison for leading an October 1993 attack against...
Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...
Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Chirac to sign CPE youth labor law despite mass protests
French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that he will sign the First Employment Contract (CPE) , a controversial labor law which, in its current form, includes a provision allowing employers to hire workers under 26 for a...