Law and Strategy after Afghanistan: The United States, Israel and Iran
Abstract: Following US withdrawal from Afghanistan, America’s security focus will turn more expressly to Iran. The core problem with America’s Afghanistan withdrawal was not one of timing or tactics, but of original misconception. In essence, the “Afghanistan Problem” stemmed from an initially underestimated and misunderstood military operation. Looking ahead, Afghanistan’s incoherent conclusion means, inter alia, [...]
Preventing Nuclear War: Legal Obligations for an Imperiled Planet
“Scholars build the structure of peace in the world.” Babylonian Talmud; Order Zera’im, Tractate Berakoth, IX Background of the Problem Back in the late 1960s, at Yale Law School and Princeton University’s Department of Politics, a series of joint-programs was developed under the heading of World Order Studies. This advanced academic series focused upon the [...]
Why Canada Believes Trump's America is No Longer Safe for Refugees
Recently a Canadian court threw out the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the USA because the detention centers in the USA violate the human rights of refugees. This pact compels the refugees seeking asylum in Canada through the US-Canadian border to first seek asylum in the USA. This pact was challenged last year by [...]
Texas court grants stay of execution for man who did not commit murder
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution on Friday for murder accomplice Jeffrey Lee Wood. Wood and Daniel Reneau attempted to rob a gas station in 1996. Wood waited in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida, discusses the Department of Defense Excess Property Program—commonly known as the '1033 Program'—under scrutiny for the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and concludes that this will...
The NSC, Drone Killing Accountability and New FOIA Litigation
CUNY School of Law, Douglas Cox and Ramzi Kassem
On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law. The act defines marriage as between one man and one woman for the purpose of excluding homosexual couples from the institution of marriage. DOMA also exempts state-recognized same-sex marriages...
Guatemala court sentences former police chief to 70 years for war crimes
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former police chief to 70 years for the kidnapping of a college student during the country's 36-year Civil War . Pedro Garcia was convicted of carrying out the kidnapping of engineering...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Chen of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law says that the recent court decision allowing Sprint and Cellular South to pursue antitrust claims against the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger is an...
Psychological association advocates legalization of same-sex marriage
The American Psychological Association (APA) voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a resolution supporting full marriage equality for same-sex couples. Just before the opening day of the APA's annual convention , a 157-member policymaking body adopted...
