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Are We Forgetting the Kurds?

JURIST - Forum — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:49:00 GMT

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that amidst all the attention focused on security problems likely to be associated with an eventual US withdrawal from Iraq, the legal and practical impact of withdrawal...(read more)

Disability and Prejudice: A Case for Extended Protections

JURIST - Forum — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:48:00 GMT

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Waterstone of Loyola Law School Los Angeles says that recent prejudiced comments about autistic and other disabled persons by American talk radio host Michael Savage reflect too-common misunderstandings of disability that...(read more)

Arresting Radovan Karadzic: Euphoria and Reality

JURIST - Forum — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:40:00 GMT

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Montgomery , US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2004, says that as the euphoria over the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fades and reality sets in, it's clear that his case poses continuing...(read more)

Taking Environmental Laws Seriously: North Carolina v. EPA

JURIST - Forum — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:00 GMT

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Flatt of the University of Houiston Law Center says the recent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to vacate the EPA’s implementation of the Clean Air Interstate Rule reminds us that the statutory mandates of our environmental...(read more)

The Conservative Case for the International Criminal Court Six Years In

JURIST - Forum — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:24:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:09:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:11:00 GMT

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?

JURIST - Forum — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:06:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:04:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:47:00 GMT

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)

Bombs Away? The Dublin Cluster Bomb Ban

JURIST - Forum — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:19:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:07:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:40:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:00 GMT

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

JURIST - Forum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:58:00 GMT

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)