The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment
JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...
UK court denies compensation for Algerian-born pilot wrongly detained after 9/11
The UK High Court has rejected the legal bid of Algerian-born pilot Lotfi Raissi for compensation for his wrongful detention. Raissi was held under a US extradition warrant after being indicted ...
JURIST Contributing Editor Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the latest US corporate scandal involves disclosures of backdated stock options upping the already-disproportionate compensation of CEOs and other senior managers, with criminal charges being...
Democratic Victory: 'A New Direction' on Checks and Balances?
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that Democrats taking over Congress in the wake of the mid-term elections should begin by reasserting constitutional checks and balances in a wide range of critical...
'All the Laws But One': Parsing the Military Commissions Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific group of...
BREAKING NEWS - Jury finds Lay, Skilling guilty in Enron fraud case
CNN is reporting that the jury in the 16-week criminal fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has found both defendants guilty. Lay and Skilling were charged with multiple...
FISC changes to post-2001 Bush wiretap requests may have prompted end-run
The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) substantively modified 179 Bush administration wiretap requests made after 2001, after declining to modify a single request in 20 of the 21 years between 1979 and 1999, according to an...
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently-divulged White House and DOJ memos provide evidence of an illegal, unconstitutional and downright inept US plan to violate the Geneva Conventions...
In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...
