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Commentary Hamdan and the Guantanamo Detainees
Hamdan and the Guantanamo Detainees
Jeremiah Lee
July 12, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and co-author of amicus briefs in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Guantanamo detainee litigation, says that although Hamdan directly...

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Commentary The Future of the EU Constitution: Escaping the Ratification Maze
The Future of the EU Constitution: Escaping the Ratification Maze
Jeremiah Lee
July 11, 2006 08:01:00 am

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...

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Commentary Hearing the Knock on the Door: Hudson and the Fourth Amendment
Hearing the Knock on the Door: Hudson and the Fourth Amendment
Jeremiah Lee
July 10, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric M. Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Hudson v. Michigan is a warning that the Fourth Amendment may be on the verge of a judicial trivialization...

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Commentary Trying Habre in Senegal: An African Solution to an African Problem?
Trying Habre in Senegal: An African Solution to an African Problem?
Jeremiah Lee
July 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the favorable response by Senegal's president to an African Union call that former Chadian president Hissene Habre be...

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Commentary No Redemption Now: Thoughts on the Death of Ken Lay
No Redemption Now: Thoughts on the Death of Ken Lay
Jeremiah Lee
July 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the sudden death of Enron founder Kenneth Lay before he was even sentenced has a variety of legal implications, but its greatest consequence may be the...

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Commentary Hamdan, Common Article 3 and the True Spirit of the Law of War
Hamdan, Common Article 3 and the True Spirit of the Law of War
Jeremiah Lee
July 3, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the US Supreme Court's...

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Commentary Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Supreme Court Affirms International Law
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Supreme Court Affirms International Law
Jeremiah Lee
June 30, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the justices of the US Supreme Court have demonstrated how fundamental tenets...

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Commentary Rape, Porn and Criminality: Political Truth on Trial
Rape, Porn and Criminality: Political Truth on Trial
Jeremiah Lee
June 30, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the correlation between a newly-documented drastic decline in sexual violence in the United States and a major increase in social access to pornography - most recently over...

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Commentary Losing the Moral High Ground: The US and the Rule of Law
Losing the Moral High Ground: The US and the Rule of Law
Jeremiah Lee
June 29, 2006 08:01:00 am

As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day on July 4, JURIST Guest Columnists David Crane and Fred Bryant, former senior legal officials in the US Defense Department, say that the United States cannot win either the war in Iraq or...

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Commentary 'The Return': Aristide, Law and Democracy in Haiti
'The Return': Aristide, Law and Democracy in Haiti
Jeremiah Lee
June 26, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the return to Haiti of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is legally and constitutionally permissible, a double standard in the...

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International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism

November 9 is the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism [UNITED factsheet]. On November 9, 1924, American gay activist Henry Gerber and several associates formed the Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights organization in the United States. The Society received a charter from the State of Illinois in December but was disbanded in July 1925 after a police raid which led to Gerber's arrest and trial (albeit not conviction). Pay a virtual visit to Henry Gerber House, now a registered Chicago landmark.

Supreme Court strikes down Massachusetts anti-draft law

On November 9, 1970, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Massachusetts v. Laird not to hear the case of the state's anti-draft law. Massachusetts had passed a law, which allowed its citizens to decline to fight in any undeclared war, even if the person was drafted. The law was passed in opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. The First Circuit found the war constitutional and thus struck down the law.

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