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Terrorism
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International Law Prof Blog
Books We Like: Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism
Louise Doswald-Beck, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, has published a new…
International Law Prof Blog
UNICEF Employee From Kenya is Killed in Nigeria
Another United Nations staff member died this week as a result of the suicide bombing that struck the world body’s offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, four months ago. Fred…
International Law Prof Blog
Iran Denies Involvement in September 11, 2011 Terror Attacks
Last Thursday, a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran and other defendants in a lawsuit alleging, inter alia, that Iran…
Media Law Prof Blog
Swedish Journalists Found Guilty On Terrorism Charges
Two Swedish reporters who crossed the Ethiopian border with rebel forces, were arrested, and who subsequently told an Ethiopian court they came to report on the human rights situation there have been…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Constitutional Challenge to AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act)
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The First Amendment problems with AETA, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, are well known. Last year, a Northern California District Judge dismissed the high profile indictments against Joseph Buddenberg and…
International Law Prof Blog
UN Security Council Places More Sanctions on Eritrea
The United Nations Security Council today placed additional sanctions on Eritrea for continuing to provide support to armed groups seeking to destabilize Somalia and other parts of the Horn of…
International Law Prof Blog
New UN Policy Guide on Criminal Justice Systems
A United Nations policy guide released this week offers advice on how to reform and improve criminal justice systems so that they are fairer and more sensitive to the needs of…
International Law Prof Blog
Alleged bomber of USS Cole to be arraigned tomorrow
Al-Nashiri, the person alleged to be the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow before a military commission at…
EvidenceProf Blog
Terror Alert: 11th Circuit Finds Special Agent’s Testimony Navigated Fine Line, Didn’t Violate Rule 704(b)
By Colin Miller
Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) provides thatNo expert witness testifying with respect to the mental state or condition of a defendant in a criminal case may state an opinion or inference…
The Faculty Lounge
George Brown on United States v. Mehanna
The United States' case against Tarek Mehanna is going to trial in Boston today. Mehanna is charged with violating the Material Support Statute. Among other things, that statute makes criminal…