Peter Weiss and Jeanne Sulzer : "On October 26, while Donald Rumsfeld was attending a conference in Paris, a war crimes complaint based on his authorization for and encouragement of...
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Anonymous : "The Lahore High Court on 27 Nov appears to have returned to normalcy; many people, many cars, many lawyers in their robes. Interestingly, resolutions have been passed by different legal forums including the LHC Bar...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that Pakistan is enduring a series of misfortunes under General Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule which will be remembered by its people... Mr....
Anonymous : "I went to the Lahore High Court (LHC) this morning; it was as deserted as before. The President of the High Court Bar Association under detention has been released last night. He was detained...
Richard C. Dieter : "The overwhelming approval of the resolution for a global moratorium on executions by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly is an important milestone in the growing international effort...
JURIST Guest Columnist Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja (Lahore High Court, ret.) and his colleagues at the Lahore University of Management Sciences Department of Law and Policy in Lahore, Pakistan, call on legal colleagues worldwide to raise their voices against the...
Asim Qureshi : "Travelling through the world researching into abuses of human rights in the 'War on Terror', a familiar pattern begins to emerge; values and the safeguards of democracy are being stripped away in the...
Malcolm Nance : "In my testimony last week to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Torture, I attempted to clarify exactly what is involved in waterboarding. Simply put, waterboarding, when used in any capacity in a coercive...
Charles Stimson : "Experience. Judgment. Temperament. Legal philosophy. Those are the requirements, at a minimum, for a qualified candidate for Attorney General of the United States. Judge Mukasey has demonstrated those qualities, and more, over...
