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Commentary Torture From the Top Down: Of Memos and Rotting Fish
Torture From the Top Down: Of Memos and Rotting Fish
Jeremiah Lee
April 7, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the recently-released 2003 DOJ memo on military interrogations written by then deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo was no...

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Commentary The 'Toronto 18' Terrorism Case: No Trial By Media
The 'Toronto 18' Terrorism Case: No Trial By Media
Jeremiah Lee
April 4, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Beenish Gaya, sister to one of the accused in the Canadian terrorism trial of members of the "Toronto 18" who supposedly planned to storm the Canadian parliament and take hostages, says that unbalanced and sensational media...

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Commentary Middle Ground: The Supreme Court's Opportunity in DC v. Heller
Middle Ground: The Supreme Court's Opportunity in DC v. Heller
Jeremiah Lee
April 2, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law says that by approaching the District of Columbia v. Heller case in a spirit of conciliation and compromise rather than extremism, the Court can make its...

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Commentary FISA Fight: The Congressional Battle Over Warrantless Surveillance
FISA Fight: The Congressional Battle Over Warrantless Surveillance
Jeremiah Lee
March 31, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Wells of the University of Missouri School of Law says that while the House version of a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act forces the Bush administration to actually prove that disclosing surveillance information would...

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Commentary Guantanamo's Uighurs:  No Justice in Solitary
Guantanamo's Uighurs: No Justice in Solitary
Jeremiah Lee
March 28, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by...

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Commentary No Refuge from Habeas: Protecting US Citizens Held by US Forces
No Refuge from Habeas: Protecting US Citizens Held by US Forces
Jeremiah Lee
March 24, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel at the Constitution Project, amicus in the US Supreme Court in support of habeas petitioners Mohammed Munaf and Shawqi Omar in Munaf v. Geren and Geren v. Omar, says that American...

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Commentary Iraq Five Years On: An Iraqi Legislative Perspective
Iraq Five Years On: An Iraqi Legislative Perspective
Jeremiah Lee
March 20, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the mixed success to date of Iraqi legislative initiatives aimed at rebuilding the country's legal order suggests that true progress and stabilization beyond the...

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Commentary Learning from the Iraq War: The Wisdom of International Law
Learning from the Iraq War: The Wisdom of International Law
Jeremiah Lee
March 19, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after the invasion of Iraq, with talk of a new war with Iran circulating in Washington, the United States would do well to reflect on...

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Commentary Democracy Day in Pakistan: No Pardon for Musharraf
Democracy Day in Pakistan: No Pardon for Musharraf
Jeremiah Lee
March 16, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the new Pakistani parliament should prosecute Pervez Musharraf for crimes committed against the constitution and people of Pakistan, and resist any pressure to pardon him directly or...

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Commentary Giving up the Ghost: Detainees, Doctors and Torture
Giving up the Ghost: Detainees, Doctors and Torture
Jeremiah Lee
March 15, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, says that Amnesty International's new report into the rendition and torture of one-time "ghost detainee" Khaled al-Maqtari by...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Mayflower Compact signed

On November 11, 1620, 41 Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact, creating a civil government for Plymouth Colony.

Armistice signed, ending WWI

On November 11, 1918 at 11:00 AM, the Allied Powers signed an armistice with Germany, ending World War I. Armistice Day is marked every year in Europe on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" with two minutes of silence.

Indictments announced in Lockerbie bombing

On November 11, 1991, prosecutors from the United States and the United Kingdom announced their indictments in the bombing of a passenger airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland. A Scottish court convicted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, allegedly a former Libyan intelligence official, of the 270 murders in 2001. Read documents from the Lockerbie bombing trial.

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