International brief ~ Lithuania becomes first state to ratify new European Constitution
Lithuania became the first EU state to ratify the European Constitution on Thursday, when the Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament, voted 84-4 (with 3 abstentions) to approve the international treaty. According to the process spelled out for ratification, all EU...
Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law:"he White House may be thinking of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales as the next Attorney General.That would be the same Gonzales who is up to his eye teeth in not just...
9th Circuit rules deportation order violated Convention against Torture
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown out a deportation order against a Syrian family which claimed its father would be tortured if returned to Syria. The family, which has lived in the Seattle...
Rasul et al. v. Rumsfeld et al., United States Distrcit Court for the District of Columbia, October 27, 2004 [alleging torture and various human rights violations and seeking $10 million each in compensation to 4 UK citizens formerly detained by...
Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the 'war on terror', Amnesty International, October 27, 2004 . Excerpt:The struggle against torture...
High Stakes in November: George W. Bush and the Future Federal Judiciary
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that perhaps the most far-reaching impact of the upcoming November election is who will get to appoint the nation's judges - including its Supreme Court...
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently-divulged White House and DOJ memos provide evidence of an illegal, unconstitutional and downright inept US plan to violate the Geneva Conventions...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says the Bush Administration's general disregard for international treaties and standards facilitated an atmosphere in which US personnel could flout the Geneva Conventions and abuse Iraqi prisoners... The Bush...
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that legal responsibility for the Abu Ghraib prison abuses extends beyond the few soldiers currently subject to investigation and prosecution... There has been...
