Jennifer Turner : "On Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman revealed that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to draw up plans for closing down the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay....
EXPERT ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Obama should close Guantanamo and resist calls for alternative detention system
Somali piracy requires balanced solution that deals with root cause
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Rwanda: No Conspiracy, No Genocide Planning … No Genocide?
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SOFA highlights US obligation to prevent detainee transfers to uninspected facilities
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Good and the Legal Future of 'Light' Cigarettes
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Defense Secretary can aid Guantanamo closure by stopping military commission trials
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Cone death penalty case shows priority of authorities is really to protect convictions
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Justice for Rwanda: ICTR Achievements and Challenges
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India-Pakistan Extraditions After the Mumbai Attacks
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Dr. Abdullahi Darman : "Somalia has been a failed state since its military dictator was toppled in 1991. As a result it has been missing the ethics of one of the three fundamentals of a state - a...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law and a Lead Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), says that if - as the ICTR recently ruled in the "Military I" trial - alleged...
Joseph Logan and Michael Wahid Hanna : "On January 1, 2009, the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) will take effect, establishing...
JURIST Guest Columnist Micah Berman of New England School of Law says that by bringing attention to the issue of "light" and "low tar" cigarettes, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Altria v. Good may prompt state attorneys general to...
Ken Gude : "The news Thursday that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is preparing for the closure of Guantanamo early in the Obama administration is more confirmation that the notorious...
Julien Ball : "The State of Tennessee wants to execute Gary Cone on a technicality. It is beyond dispute that the prosecution withheld crucial evidence in the case. Cone argued that he suffered...
Pui-yin Lo : "The judgment of Mr. Justice Andrew Cheung of the Hong Kong Court of First Instance on December 8, 2008, held that: "the disenfranchisement provisions...
On the eve of a long-anticipated ruling in the Bagosora "Military I" genocide trial, JURIST Special Guest Columnist Roland Amoussouga, Spokesperson and Senior Legal Adviser at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), reviews the Tribunal's challenges and achievements as...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Materneau Chrispin, PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, says that Pakistan's refusal to extradite two of its citizens to India where they are wanted in connection with the November terrorist attacks...
