December 2006 - Posts

• Supreme Legacy: Gerald Ford and John Paul Stevens

  Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:12 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that one of the best and most enduring legacies of the late President Gerald Ford has been John Paul Stevens, his one Supreme Court justice whom he nominated in 1975... As th Read More...

• Saddam is Dead, But His Trial Should Continue

  Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 9:55 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide of the Kurds should continue posthumously, notwithstanding his execution for crimes against humanity in Dujail... The exec Read More...

• The US and the Execution of Saddam Hussein: No Respect for Law

  Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 9:42 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, an American member of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, says that the execution of Saddam Hussein after an unfair trial leaves the United States with blood on its hands and makes war criminals of its lead Read More...

• The Haditha Double Standard

  Posted Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:27 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says the disparate charges brought against US Marine Corps officers and enlisted men in connection with the killings of Iraqi civilians at Haditha manifest a double standard of criminal lia Read More...

• The Red Crystal: A New Universal Emblem for Humanitarian Law

  Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:53 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Donna Arzt, Director of the Center for Global Law and Practice at Syracuse University College of Law, says that the recent adoption by Geneva Convention states of a Red Crystal symbol to supplement the traditional Red Cross and Red Read More...

• Playing By the Rules: A New Strategy for Corporate Prosecutors

  Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:17 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that new instructions to federal prosecutors not to demand privileged documents as a means of inducing corporate co-operation with investigations may help preserve usef Read More...

• The Military Commissions Act of 2006: 'Play it Again, [Uncle] Sam'

  Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:36 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 again puts US JAG officers in the awkward position of litigating the shortfalls of a military Read More...

• The 'Pinochet Precedent': A Mixed Legacy for Human Rights

  Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 8:13 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that while the legal pursuit of late Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in recent years represented a step forward for huma Read More...