Search Results for: 2000-10-27

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the United States today has no legal basis to use significant armed force against Iran, and that another unlawful war in the wake of the Iraq debacle...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon... Hezbollah's surprising television...

Draft resolution for a Middle East ceasefire presented by France and the United States, UN Security Council, August 5, 2006:The Security Council,PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004),...

The office of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) tasked with investigating the oil-for-food program will remain open an additional three months, until March 31, so prosecutors can assist "duly authorized law...

Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman pleaded not guilty on Thursday afternoon to charges related to what prosecutors are calling a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" . Former Chief of Staff Paul Hamrick and former state Transportation Director Mack...

The Manipulation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, Independent Inquiry Committee, October 27, 2005 [finding that more than 2,000 companies around the world paid $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in abusing the now defunct...