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The Two Koreas: The Armistice and the Boundary

2009-06-01T19:45:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that North Korea's apparent disavowal of the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War does not negate the continued existence at international law of the legal boundary between Read More......(read more)

Extinction or Evolution? Ending Absolute Universal Jurisdiction in International Law

2009-05-26T16:45:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that recent passage by Spain's lower house of parliament of a non-binding resolution aimed at limiting the scope of the country's universal jurisdiction may not be a step Read More......(read more)

Ashcroft v. Iqbal: Different Spanks for Different Ranks?

2009-05-20T15:17:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the US Supreme Court's ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal suggests that the Court may be trying to set up a system wherein lower level officials can be held criminally Read More......(read more)

'Change' at Guantanamo: Reality or Illusion?

2009-05-19T13:56:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that President Obama's recent announcement that his administration will reform rather than abolish the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay threatens to undercut his Read More......(read more)

The Complicity of Dick Cheney: No 'Necessity' Defense

2009-05-18T13:55:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that former Vice President Dick Cheney's statements about his direct involvement in the authorization of unlawful interrogation tactics such as waterboarding are clear Read More......(read more)

Should Obama Nominate a Justice Without Judicial Experience?

2009-05-15T12:28:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that while the US Court Supreme Court might benefit from the nomination of an elected public official, President Obama should not nominate such a person to serve Read More......(read more)

The Spirit of Nuremberg Lives! Remembering Henry King

2009-05-13T15:04:00Z

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 scope and vitality of today's international criminal law is a lasting testament to the life Read More......(read more)

The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison

2009-05-12T21:36:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the claimed "suicide" in a Libyan prison of al-Qaeda operative Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi is too convenient for too many people who have besmirched American honor in a perversion Read More......(read more)

No Torture, No Prosecution

2009-05-08T16:43:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says that even the worst of the authorized CIA interrogation techniques do not constitute Read More......(read more)

Rice, Waterboarding and Accountability

2009-05-08T13:02:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest statements on waterboarding indicate her complicity in unlawful interrogation, and that she and others in the Read More......(read more)

Fighting H1N1: Why Laws are Not the Answer

2009-05-02T20:18:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards of Louisiana State University Law Center says that in the midst of current concerns about the spread of the H1N1 virus (popularly known as "swine flu"), passing more and stricter public health laws will neither strengthen Read More......(read more)

The 'Torture Memos': Learning That Ends Do Not Justify Means

2009-04-28T16:35:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that if we learn nothing else from recent disclosures about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism detainees, we must come Read More......(read more)

The Second Bybee Memo: A Smoking Gun

2009-04-22T19:41:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that far from providing real legal cover for CIA harsh interrogations, the newly disclosed second Bybee memo is a "smoking gun" providing further evidence of serial criminality Read More......(read more)

Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers

2009-04-22T19:17:00Z

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the President’s Read More......(read more)

The Obama Lobbying Directive: Steps in the Right Direction

2009-04-10T13:30:00Z

JURIST Guest Columnist William Luneburg of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says the Obama administration's restrictive new lobbying directive cannot altogether eliminate the phenomenon of "influence peddling" nor can it change Washington culture Read More......(read more)