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Commentary International humanitarian law violated in Gaza
International humanitarian law violated in Gaza
March 21, 2008 12:21:00 pm

Joe Stork : "The conflict between Israel and Hamas-led forces in the Gaza Strip has taken a terrible toll among civilians. Palestinian rocket attacks that in late February killed one Israeli...

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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 Gun locks targeted in DC gun ban oral arguments
Gun locks targeted in DC gun ban oral arguments
March 19, 2008 01:12:00 pm

John Lott : "Strangely, oral arguments about DC's gun ban turned on discussions of gun locks as much as anything else. Machine guns might have seemed to be a flashier topic, but...

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Commentary Khadr military judge evidence disclosure ruling significant
Khadr military judge evidence disclosure ruling significant
March 19, 2008 12:44:00 pm

Aisling Reidy : "On March 13, the defense for Omar Khadr had some fairly basic objectives - to get the government to disclose evidence, such as notes relating to the interrogation of their client when...

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Commentary Immunity of Nigeria officials will ensure continued human rights abuses
Immunity of Nigeria officials will ensure continued human rights abuses
March 19, 2008 11:56:00 am

Samuel Abiodun Adebowale : "In Chicago (USA), a U.S. District Court admitted a claim to investigate the responsibility of a former Nigerian head of state, Gen. Abubakar Abdulsalami, for gross...

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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 Report from Guantánamo: US interrogation techniques under scrutiny
Report from Guantánamo: US interrogation techniques under scrutiny
March 18, 2008 06:49:00 pm

Kevin Lanigan : "Last week I observed three military commissions hearings in Guantánamo: the arraignments of Afghani national Mohammed Jawad and Saudi national Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, and a discovery motions...

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Commentary Detained like me: the Guantanamo ordeal of Omar Khadr
Detained like me: the Guantanamo ordeal of Omar Khadr
March 17, 2008 10:10:00 pm

Moazzam Begg : "In January this year, a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry, which referred to Guantanamo Bay, listed the United States as a country known to practice torture. Despite this...

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Commentary Reasonable appointees could make Congressional Ethics body hugely beneficial
Reasonable appointees could make Congressional Ethics body hugely beneficial
March 17, 2008 09:47:00 pm

Bob Edgar : "The creation of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has sweeping implications for the House of Representatives and its members. Though the process of rooting out corruption among members of the House has changed...

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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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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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