January 2008 - Posts

• NATO Genocide in Afghanistan

  Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:46 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that in the name of the "war of terror," NATO forces in Afghanistan are committing genocide by systematically hunting down and destroying the Taliban, a puritanical Islamic Read More...

• Khodorkovsky Case Update: Politics Increasingly Transparent

  Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:03 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing money laundering charges, Read More...

• No Shelter for War Crimes 'Within the Scope of Employment'

  Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:14 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says despite a recent conclusion of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials are immune from torture-related Read More...

• From Dreams to Laws: The Legacy of Dr. King

  Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 7:40 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Rebecca Zietlow of the University of Toledo College of Law says that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a dreamer but a doer whose activism helped bring about the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s... Senator Hillary Read More...

• Linking Rights and Foreign Aid for Ethiopia: The Case of HR 2003

  Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:33 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury of the Mekelle University Law Faculty in Mek'ele, Ethiopia, says that although the vast majority of Ethiopians publicly denounce H.R. 2003, the so-called Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act now going through Read More...

• Breaking the Code: A Call for Candor at the CIA

  Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:03 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan, former CIA assistant general counsel now at William Mitchell College of Law, reminds us of other recent investigations into CIA activities apart from the destruction of interrogation tapes and explains why we should Read More...

• Getting Away with Murder: Ghadaffi's West African Legacy

  Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:29 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 amidst the recent feting of Libyan leader Muamar Ghadaffi in European capitals, part and parcel Read More...

• Burma: The Guillotine is No Solution for Despair

  Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:27 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Special Guest Columnist Basil Fernando of the Asian Legal Resource Centre says that repression of the Burmese people by the military government of the country now officially known as Myanmar is a device used against a despairing people that cannot Read More...