Ross Ray QC : "David Hicks may have been released from prison on 29 December, but he is not a free man. Although it has not been alleged, let alone proven, that Hicks has committed any...
Michael Simpson : "In a major victory for students, parents, and public education, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on January 7th that the Bush Administration's interpretation of the No Child...
JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan, former CIA assistant general counsel now at William Mitchell College of Law, reminds us of other recent investigations into CIA activities apart from the destruction of interrogation tapes and explains why we should pay...
Cristián Correa : "The whole debate about if waterboarding is torture or not seems artificial to me, because it is very clear that drowning detainees during interrogation is a way of intentionally inflicting severe...
Malcolm Nance : "That the National Director of Intelligence, Mike McConnell would recently come out and opine that waterboarding "hether it's torture by anybody else's definition … for me it would be torture" tells...
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that amidst the recent feting of Libyan leader Muamar Ghadaffi in European capitals, part and parcel of...
Max Croes : "On December 31, 2007, President Bush, with unanimous support from Congress, signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law. The law is a landmark establishment of standards for policies of targeted...
Santosh Giri : "The abolition of Nepal's nearly 240-year-old monarchy and declaration of Nepal as a "federal, democratic, republican state" was made by an overwhelming majority in the interim parliament late last month. 270...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Basil Fernando of the Asian Legal Resource Centre says that repression of the Burmese people by the military government of the country now officially known as Myanmar is a device used against a despairing people that...
Chip Pitts : "The recent transfer home from Guantanamo of ten more Saudi prisoners (and reports from Qatar News Agency that more of the final 13 Saudis may soon follow) suggests...