June 2008 - Posts

• Bombs Away? The Dublin Cluster Bomb Ban

  Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 8:19 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnists Steven Solomon of the World Health Organization and David Kaye of the UCLA School of Law say that while the recently concluded Dublin Cluster Bomb Treaty represents a major advance in the law of war, it is not a clear victory or Read More...

• Getting Back on Track after Boumediene

  Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:07 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, says that the US Supreme Court's opinion in Boumediene v. Bush is the consequence of mistaken Read More...

• The Yoo and Addington Hearings: A Citizen's Right to Know NOW

  Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 3:40 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that in the face of disconcertedly-vague and incomplete recollections by Cheney chief of staff David Addington and former DOJ lawyer John Yoo, other officials who witnessed Read More...

• US Duties to Detainees During a Withdrawal from Iraq

  Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 3:57 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that so long as the United States is an occupying power or exercises effective control in any part of Iraq it must ensure that it is meeting its obligations to detainees Read More...

• Boumediene's Uncertain Aftermath

  Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 10:58 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist David Kaye of UCLA School of Law says that instead of the Supreme Court's habeas solution to the detentions problem in Boumediene v. Bush , Congress and President might better have engaged in a good faith legislative process to Read More...

• Habeas Affirmed: Judicial Review of Detentions after Boumediene

  Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:08 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnists Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham and Judge William S. Sessions say that the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush not only restores the delicate balance of power between the three branches of government but ensures Read More...

• The Last Extension of Emergency Law in Egypt?

  Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:14 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University says that although the Egyptian government's recent extension of the emergency law may be the last in a string of renewals over the past half-century, this does not have pro-democracy activists Read More...

• After Ireland's 'No': Long Live the Lisbon Treaty?

  Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:44 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech , Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that Ireland's recent "No" vote in its referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty means that Ireland could find Read More...

• Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene

  Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 9:40 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that by upholding habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo detainees in Boumediene , the US Supreme Court has fulfilled its constitutional duty to check and balance the other two Read More...

• Guantanamo 'Court' Besmirches Nuremberg

  Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:21 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the processes and procedures of the United States military commission system being used to try alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) are a betrayal of the Read More...