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• Teddy Bears Behind Bars

  Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 8:59 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Must share this exchange from a session today on international law after Iraq at the American Society of International Law 's annual meeting in Washington. Audience member Jason Dominguez , a law professor at Texas Southern University, raised with panelist Read More...
  Filed under: Abu Ghraib, detention, Jason Dominguez, Sandy Hodgkinson, American Society of International Law

• Is an Objective Appraisal of John Yoo's Work Possible?

  Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:06 PM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  John Yoo is a scholar of the first-rank. He confronted a legal and factual problem unlike any other public servant before him. With hardly any law, and even less direct judicial precedent, he reached plausible, but not always, prudent conclusions. If we put aside the understandable suspicion of the overreaching of the president, can we objectively say what went wrong and, without perfect hindsight, what were the alternative legal -- as opposed to policy -- conclusions? Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, Abu Ghraib, OLC, torture, 9/11 plotters, Justice Department, Executive Power, Fourth Amendment, Hamdan, John Yoo, Torture Memos, interrogation, 4th Amendment

• Because Ipse Dixit Says So

  Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:38 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  A reader of the newly declassified "torture memo" finds herself tempted to live-blog it; that is, to offer online, real-time notes that otherwise would be scrawled in the margins replete with all manner of punctuation symbols (! and ? and, yes, @*?%!). Read More...
  Filed under: Abu Ghraib, torture, John Yoo, release of Yoo torture memo, interrogation, 4th Amendment, Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II, 5th Amendment

• Convicted

  Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 2:15 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Despite the years that I've labored in the law of crime, today marks the first time I find myself on a " Convictions " list. Happily, I've assumed the label not in a court of law but in this court of public opinion just launched by Slate . The brains Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, Deborah Pearlstein, Abu Ghraib, John Paul Stevens, globalization, international law, Phillip Carter

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