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JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says the theory that self-executing treaties are the only type of international law that is binding on states is based on an incorrect, revisionist account of US legal...
Court-martial: A Third Option for Trying Al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says regularly constituted military courts-martial could be a plausible third option for federal prosecution of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban outside of federal district courts or...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that a reconstituted military commission at Guantanamo Bay set up to only prosecute aliens would necessarily violate bilateral treaties, create a "denial of justice" for aliens under...
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...
US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , whose conviction relating to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was thrown out earlier this week, told AP Thursday that the investigation...
The conviction of US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , the only commissioned officer charged in connection to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal , has been annulled, his lawyer said Thursday....
US soldier jailed for Abu Ghraib detainee abuse released on parole
Former US Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick was released on parole Monday from a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was incarcerated for three years after pleading guilty to abusing prisoners...
Abu Ghraib intelligence officer reprimanded, spared jail time
US Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was reprimanded Wednesday following his conviction earlier this week for disobeying an order not to discuss the investigation into allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib...