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Commentary A Call to End All Renditions
A Call to End All Renditions
Jeremiah Lee
February 10, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process...

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Commentary Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy
Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy
Jeremiah Lee
February 9, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surrounding that, if the US government...

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Commentary <u>Benbrika</u> case shows limits of current Australian counter-terrorism strategy
Benbrika case shows limits of current Australian counter-terrorism strategy
February 9, 2009 07:59:00 am

Stephen Blanks : "Last week, Abdul Nacer Benbrika and 6 followers were sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court, Melbourne, to terms of imprisonment ranging from 6 years to 15 years, for terrorism related offenses committed...

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Commentary Guatemalan reparations program for civil war victims&#8217; families about more than compensation
Guatemalan reparations program for civil war victims’ families about more than compensation
February 8, 2009 11:37:00 am

Amanda Martin : "In April 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Commission adopted a set of international principles on reparations for victims of human rights violations. These include restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of non-repetition....

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Commentary Blagojevich ouster is merely the end of the beginning of this corruption scandal
Blagojevich ouster is merely the end of the beginning of this corruption scandal
February 7, 2009 01:37:00 pm

Matt Belcher : "As the "Governor Rod" story ends (for the time being) I wonder if "Citizen Rod" - the future "Defendant please rise Rod" - ever looks in the mirror and wonders how this all happened....

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Commentary SNAFU at the AU: Is Regionalism the ICC&#39;s Biggest Challenge?
SNAFU at the AU: Is Regionalism the ICC's Biggest Challenge?
Jeremiah Lee
February 5, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that if the African Union is successful in its bid to sway the UN Security Council to delay the ICC case against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir,...

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Commentary &#39;Advice and Consent&#39;: How the Senate Should Vet Obama Cabinet Picks
'Advice and Consent': How the Senate Should Vet Obama Cabinet Picks
Professor William G. Ross | Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
February 4, 2009 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that for various constitutional, political and practical reasons made all the more pressing by controversies surrounding a number of high-profile and now even withdrawn nominees, the...

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Commentary <u>Brillon</u> case gives Supreme Court chance to clarify limits of speedy trial rights
Brillon case gives Supreme Court chance to clarify limits of speedy trial rights
February 2, 2009 11:57:00 am

Cheryl Hanna : "The Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Assault, along with seventeen other similar organizations from across the country, filed an amicus brief in Vermont v. Brillon to call to the Court's attention...

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Commentary THAILAND:  Legal Obstacles to Citizenship for Indigenous Groups
THAILAND: Legal Obstacles to Citizenship for Indigenous Groups
January 31, 2009 10:41:00 am

JURIST Staffer Necia Hobbes, Pitt Law '11, volunteered in Chiang Rai before starting graduate school:In the United States, citizenship is granted to those born within US borders or to US citizen parents, and can be obtained through naturalization. The Kingdom...

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Commentary EU accepting Guant&amp;#195;&amp;#161;namo detainees would signal global support for restoring rule of law
EU accepting Guant&#195;&#161;namo detainees would signal global support for restoring rule of law
January 31, 2009 09:25:00 am

Jennifer Turner : "President Obama's recent executive orders to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp within a year and to reverse many of the Bush Administration's most egregious detention and torture policies were a...

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Guiteau tried for assassinating US President Garfield

On November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield. The trial of Guiteau pointed to problems with nineteenth-century law's treatment of insanity; Guiteau's trial is also problematic in retrospect as Garfield's death was immediately attributable not to Guiteau, but to Garfield's doctors who—before sterilization was well understood—repeated probed his wound with unwashed hands while searching for an embedded bullet.

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