July 2008 - Posts

• The Conservative Case for the International Criminal Court Six Years In

  Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:24 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while the International Criminal Court and its founding Rome Statute are far from perfect, the operation of Court since the Statute entered into force in July 2002 Read More...

• Karadzic's Choice: Why War Criminals Defend Themselves

  Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 7:09 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 declaration by recently-arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic that he will Read More...

• The US and the International Criminal Court Then and Now

  Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:11 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer , former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, reflects on the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations on the Rome Statute establishing Read More...

• Indicting Sudan's President for War Crimes: Could George Bush be Next?

  Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:06 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that even though the recent indictment of sitting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes Read More...

• The Iraqi Oil Contracts and the Importance of Independent Counsel

  Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:04 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says the Iraqi government needs to secure independent counsel over and above whatever guidance it has received from US government advisers before entering into Read More...

• Sharing a SOFA With Iraq: Towards a Status of Forces Agreement

  Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:47 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, says that a viable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement between the US and Iraq governing future US troop presence in the country requires a Read More...