Michael Lowe : "I've been following the Judge Samuel Kent story since last fall, blogging on it periodically. Perhaps my perspective is a bit different than some other folks, given that I'm a Texas board-certified criminal defense attorney, but I find the end result of the Kent case troubling. First of all, I'm not surprised [...]

The Obama administration is considering transferring more Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US, according to testimony Friday by US Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson to the the House Armed Services Committee . Some detainees could be transferred for long-term incarceration and others for prosecution, but none would be released domestically. Guantanamo Bay detainee [...]

Cobell, et al. v. Salazar, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, July 24, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Judgement Summary For Vojilav Seselj, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, July 24, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

The trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday convicted Serbian nationalist Volislav Seselj of contempt and sentenced him to 15 months in prison for authoring a book revealing pertinent information about several key witnesses. Seselj, leader of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, is currently on trial in the [...]

The Taipei District court said Friday that a verdict in the corruption cases against former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian will be delivered on September 11. Presiding judge Tsai Shou-hsum said that the trial had entered its final stages and would conclude July 28. Tsai said the verdict for all four charges would be delivered at [...]

Defense lawyers for Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi presented their closing arguments Friday with the prosecution expected to offer its closing arguments Monday. Suu Kyi was reportedly disappointed with the court's decision to allow the prosecution more time to prepare their closing, as it is customary for both parties to give their closing [...]

Spanish police announced Friday that they have arrested Jorge Alberto Soza, wanted in his home country of Argentina on torture charges stemming from his service in the police force during the country's military dictatorship. From 1976 to 1983, a period known as the "Dirty War" , an estimated 20,000-30,000 people were forcibly kidnapped or "disappeared" [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) must provide an accounting in a 13-year class action lawsuit concerning the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 American Indians. Both parties appealed two separate rulings from [...]

US financial regulators and scholars advised the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that "safety and soundness" can be restored to the financial system through increased regulatory oversight, but did not agree on the form that oversight should take. In his opening statement , committee Chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT) expressed doubt about the Obama administration's plan [...]