April 2007 - Posts

• The US, Australia and David Hicks: Abandoning the Rule of Law

  Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 9:00 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks before a US military commission has demonstrated the disturbing willingness of two allegedly democratic Read More...

• Carhart, Casey, and the Supreme Court's Catholics

  Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:24 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Garnett of the University of Chicago Law School says that alleging that the Catholic judges in the majority in the Carhart partial birth abortion case failed to respect a fundamental difference between religious belief and Read More...

• The Pakistan Chief Justice Story: A Personal Narrative

  Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:48 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law, recently returned from his native Pakistan, shares the story of his personal involvement in some of the circumstances leading up to the March 9 suspension of Pakistan Chief Justice Read More...

• Firing Gonzales For All the Right Reasons

  Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:39 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that amidst the political furor over the role of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the firings of US Attorneys we should also remember his involvement in the development Read More...

• David Hicks' Guilty Plea: Another Blow to US Moral Authority

  Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 10:47 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the overbearing terms imposed on Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in his recent military commission plea agreement are the product of an overly and unfairly coercive Read More...

• Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees

  Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:01 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the Supreme Court's failure to marshall enough votes to review the habeas-stripping provisions of the Military Commissions Act Read More...

• Safeguarding Judicial Independence in Pakistan

  Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 7:38 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that following the removal of Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry concrete constitutional reforms are needed Read More...