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Commentary When Criminal Justice Systems Collide:  Improving the  European Arrest Warrant
When Criminal Justice Systems Collide: Improving the European Arrest Warrant
Jeremiah Lee
September 16, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Raneta Lawson Mack of Creighton University School of Law says that in order to reconcile the procedural disparities inherent to the collision between inquisitorial and adversarial systems, the European Arrest Warrant can and should provide mechanisms to...

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Commentary Reconsidering the 'Rule of Law' in Iraq
Reconsidering the 'Rule of Law' in Iraq
Jeremiah Lee
September 8, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that outside observers purporting to assess adherence to the "rule of law" in Iraq should pay less attention to compliance or non-compliance with formally enacted...

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Commentary Reforming Criminal Procedure in France
Reforming Criminal Procedure in France
Jeremiah Lee
September 4, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnists Judith Sunderland and William Bourdon of Human Rights Watch say that the French government needs to ensure that all suspects in police custody have the right to see a lawyer immediately, have access to a lawyer...

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Commentary Fair or Foul? Inheritance-Driven Adult Adoption Within Same-Sex Partnerships
Fair or Foul? Inheritance-Driven Adult Adoption Within Same-Sex Partnerships
Jeremiah Lee
August 24, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Terry Turnipseed of Syracuse University College of Law says that the increasing frequency of adult adoption within same-sex partnerships as a means of ensuring the receipt of inheritances may have set in motion an irreversible legal freight...

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Commentary Jury Trials in Japan:  Off to a Good Start, But…
Jury Trials in Japan: Off to a Good Start, But…
Jeremiah Lee
August 21, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Raneta Lawson Mack of the Creighton University School of Law says that while Japan's establishment of a jury trial system is a bold effort to democratize its criminal justice process, it's yet to be seen how the...

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Commentary Risky Business: An International Tribunal for Guantanamo Detainees?
Risky Business: An International Tribunal for Guantanamo Detainees?
Jeremiah Lee
August 20, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the notion of setting up a special international tribunal to try Guantanamo detainees - most recently floated in an op-ed in the New York Times - is...

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Commentary Kenya's Dangerous Dance with Impunity
Kenya's Dangerous Dance with Impunity
Jeremiah Lee
August 18, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while having the International Criminal Court take up cases arising out of the violence that followed Kenya's 2007 elections could be convenient for local politicians...

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Commentary The Geneva Conventions Between War and Peace: Sixty Years and Counting
The Geneva Conventions Between War and Peace: Sixty Years and Counting
Jeremiah Lee
August 17, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL (formerly at Ann Arbor, MI) examines the relevance of the four Geneva Conventions signed in August 1949, 60 years ago this month, in the context of...

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Commentary Italian Immigration Law: For the Common Good?
Italian Immigration Law: For the Common Good?
Jeremiah Lee
August 14, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Archbishop Agostino Marchetto of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People says in light of recent Italian legislation on immigrants that while states have the right to control their borders,...

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Commentary Nuremberg and the Torture Memos:  An American Dilemma
Nuremberg and the Torture Memos: An American Dilemma
Jeremiah Lee
August 13, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that despite the potential political cost to President Obama of investigating the torture memos released by the former Bush administration, failure to act on the memos...

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