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Rights group urges US government to reform Afghanistan detainee policy

[JURIST] The US should reform its detention policy [press release] at Bagram Air Base [JURIST news archive] in Afghanistan in order to combat counterinsurgency, according to a report [text, PDF] released Thursday by Human Rights First (HRF) [advocacy website]. HRF... [full story]

Senate defeats proposal to prevent 9/11 suspects from being tried in federal court

[JURIST] The US Senate voted 54-45 Thursday to defeat an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have prevented Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of involvement in 9/11 from being tried in federal courts. The amendment was proposed by Senator.... [more]
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Beyond Guantanamo

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham
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The Use of Force After the 'War on Terror': A Call for an Obama Doctrine

Christian Henderson
Oxford Brookes University

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Third Circuit favors free speech in striking down broad abortion clinic protest zones11/06
David Cortman [Senior Legal Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund]: "Over the last several years, the government has increasingly restricted pro-life speech, particularly when it occurs on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. These restrictions are, at best, highly suspect under the First Amendment - and, at worst, completely unconstitutional. And that was no less the case in the most recent ...." [more]
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PITTSBURGH: Former ECJ Judge Sir David Edward discusses Nationalism and the EU11/04
Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh...Kristine Long Rather fortuitously, I was able to go with Professor Ron Brand, Director of the Center for International Legal Education, to pick up ...." [more]
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Ricci v. DeStefano8/31
JURIST Guest Analyst Sheila R. Foster is the Albert A. Walsh Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Fordham Law School in New York City, where she teaches and writes on issues relating to anti-discrimination law and environmental justice. She is also Co-Director of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics. She is the author (with R. A. Lenhardt) of The Racial Subject in Legal Theory in ...." [more]
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Congress passed War Powers Act

On November 7, 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act, overriding President Nixon's veto. Read the War Powers Act and review a summary of Congress and the War Power: Constitutional Anchor or Anachronism?, a seminar held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on October 15, 2001....." [more]
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