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Good News for Your Labor Day: Haleh Esfandiari Released
On Sunday, three months after the Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari was accused of spying, detained and imprisoned by Iranian officials, she was...
War Crimes Prosecutors Demand Action
Nora Boustany reported in Saturday's Washington Post on an important and unprecedented gathering of international war crimes prosecutors that took place last...
WFM Meeting
Today was an interesting first day at the WFM 60th anniversary annual meeting. Bill Pace, the head of the WFM’s international secretariat...
Geneva and the Conventions
I have arrived in Switzerland for an important conference put on by the WFM (more on that later). One of the first...
Limbaugh Places Foot in Mouth on Darfur
If ever there has been an issue that is not about liberal or conservative or red state versus blue state, it is...
The Rights Fight
Check out this interview in the Santa Fe Reporter with Jameel Jaffer. Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union...
The Role of Psychologists in U.S. Sponsored Torture
An interesting story published today on Salon.com reports on the position of psychologists in the U.S. vis a vis coercive interrogation strategies...
Legacy of Nuremberg II
As I previewed earlier, this morning I moderated a fascinating panel at the ABA meeting on the Legacy of Nuremberg. The panelists...
World Justice Project and Forum
I just attended a very interesting session here at the ABA meeting. The international section pulled together a large group of foreign...
Legacy of Nuremberg
After a day that started a bit before 4am I have finally made it to the American Bar Association annual meeting in...
From Mark Goldberg on Sudan and the International Criminal Court
I just got a fascinating note in my inbox from Mark Goldberg, who writes regularly for UN Dispatch and the American Prospect....