JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law says that it is much better to have deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein put on trial in an Iraqi court than before an international criminal tribunal along the lines of existing models. Eight months after Baghdad fell, Saddam Hussein was captured from a [...]

Legal experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will join other high level OSCE officials already in Kyrgyzstan early this week to attempt to resolve the country's current electoral crisis. Kyrgyzstan has been in a continuing state of unrest since contested elections in late February and the run-off elections in mid-March. The [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, March 28. The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In San Remo Hotel v. San Francisco , 04-340, the Court will consider whether a takings claim under the Fifth [...]

Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School: "Congress is on the verge of passing and the President of signing a major overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code. (See Summary and Changes). The new bankruptcy law, popularly termed the "Bankruptcy Reform Act," has engendered passionate debate inside and outside Congress. The criticisms of the Act bespeak a [...]

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said Sunday that Sudan would reject any UN resolution calling for the prosecution of Sudanese nationals suspected of war crimes in a court abroad. The UN Security Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a French draft resolution that would send those charged with war crimes in the Darfur [...]

France's largest Muslim organization, the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) , has argued at a national conference of French Muslims that the state should reconsider its ban on Islamic headscarves in schools and recognize Islamic holy days. The French Education Ministry ordered the ban on "conspicuous religious signs" in state schools last March, in [...]

Australian attorney general Philip Ruddock has asked the US to expedite proceedings against Australian detainee David Hicks , the only Australian still held at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and suspected of working with Al-Qaeda. Ruddock and Australia's ambassador to the US say they want to avoid another case like that [...]

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism from foreign governments, human rights groups, and the federal courts, include strengthening the rights of defendants, establishing more independant judges [...]

Citing lack of jursidiction, the Florida Supreme Court has rejected what is likely to be the last appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents in their efforts to have their daughter's feeding tube re-inserted. The ruling effectively upholds Judge George Greer's order from earlier this afternoon denying relief . Read the Florida Supreme Court order , and [...]

Court officials in Egypt have announced that opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour will stand trial on charges of forgery in June. Prosecutors allege that Nour and six members of his Al Ghad Party forged nearly 1,500 signatures to meet the number required to register his political party. In a suprising move ealier this month, Egyptian [...]