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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday announced they are conducting criminal investigations into alleged intentional misconduct by their soldiers during December and January's fighting in the Gaza strip. In a report seeking "to place...

Israeli military officials closed an internal investigation Monday into allegations of war crimes committed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel against Palestinian civilians, concluding that there was no wrongdoing . The investigation was launched last week...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Sunday to protect members of his country's military involved in Gaza operations from prosecution by foreign entities in remarks at a weekly cabinet meeting. After insisting that Israeli...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday placed justice minister Daniel Friedman in charge of defending Israel against war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Gaza . Olmert appointed Friedman to head an...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Kattan of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, says that Israel's Gaza offensive cannot be legally justified by any right of self-defense and instead constitutes aggression...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that while self-defense (in the classic model) is the legal basis for Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces' re-articulation of proportionality and...

Nepal's draft Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bill of 2007 does not meet international legal standards as currently drafted, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission for Jurists said Wednesday. The groups called the bill "seriously...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put...

JURIST Guest Columnist George Dix of the University of Texas School of Law says that challenges made by Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) to his two criminal indictments for conspiracy and money laundering may require the Texas courts to consider the...

In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...