December 2007 - Posts

• Perfidy in Pakistan: Understanding the Bhutto Assassination

  Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 5:29 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the latest instance of perfidy in a Pakistan whose military leaders have been self-servingly dedicated to America's war or terror... Read More...

• A Modest Proposal on Kirkuk

  Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:10 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a recent proposal to turn the contentious northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk into an independent federal regionate could be a starting point for further discussions Read More...

• Summoning Caesar to Trial in Pakistan

  Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:01 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf - the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" - to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and Read More...

• Senator Leahy, Executive Power, and the Rule of Law

  Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:23 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that last week's executive privilege ruling by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shows that Congress has the stronger argument in its fight for Read More...

• Congress, Torture and Romain Gary's Chien Blanc

  Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 10:16 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that new revelations about top US lawmakers' encouragement and support of state-sponsored torture in the years immediately following 9/11 make them complicit in acts Read More...

• The Cambodian Genocide Court: Lessons for the ICC in Uganda?

  Posted Monday, December 03, 2007 9:29 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that especially in the context of its troubled pursuit of Ugandan rebels, the International Criminal Court in The Hague might take a leaf from the book of the new Extraordinary Read More...