June 2007 - Posts

• Suppressing Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild

  Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:10 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 FBI surveillance of National Lawyers Guild members and activities between 1940 and 1975 - highlighted in a recent New York Times Read More...

• Justice for Freetown: The Sierra Leone War Crimes Verdicts

  Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 10:12 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the first guilty verdicts handed down by the court for the leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Read More...

• The Taguba Revelations: Lessons(?) from Abu Ghraib

  Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 8:37 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that revelations by now-retired Major General Antonio Taguba in a recent New Yorker interview raise some very troubling issues suggesting that the US military Read More...

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• The Missing Civil Rights Murders: Justice Delayed in Mississippi

  Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 10:52 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Burnham of Northeastern University School of Law says the trial of alleged Klansman James Seale, accused of kidnapping and then drowning two young men in southwest Mississippi in May 1964, highlights both Mississippi's Read More...

• An Empty Chair at The Hague: Trying Charles Taylor

  Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 1:02 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that despite the absence of former Liberian president and indicted war criminal Charles Taylor from the Read More...

• No Unlawful Enemy Combatants at Guantanamo

  Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:12 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 while the Bush administration may attempt to fix the procedural problem that resulted in the recent dismissal of US military Read More...