Rule of Law

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The Murder of Russian Rule of Law

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Crime, Sergey Magnitskiy, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, Democracy, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Murder, Human Rights, Hermitage Capital Management, William Browder, Prison, Sergei Magnitsky, Vladimir Putin, Stanislav Markelov, Anna Politkovskaya, World News

Late on Monday the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a rupture of the abdominal membrane causing death. How many more dead Russians will it take before the world takes notice?

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable -- A Must-Read.

William Fisher | Posted 09.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Bush-Office-of-Legal-Counsel, U.S. Constitution, John Yoo, Rule of Law, Books News

In chillingly uncomplicated prose, Cole argues that these memos are the real "smoking gun" in the torture controversy because they demonstrate that the culpability lies not merely with the CIA interrogators.

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Witness, Doctors, Uyghurs, Human Rights, Cia, Interview, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, World News

We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

I fear that we might just see exactly how many barrels of oil a given dictator needs to export in order to flaunt the law.

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Terrorists Who Don't Face Justice: A Disappointing Trend

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: International Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Crime, Terrorism, Rule of Law, Pan Am 103, World News

As the 'Lockerbie bomber' suns himself amid cheers in Tripoli, an examination of the outcomes of other cases of terrorism against Americans over the last century yields its own pattern of disappointments.

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Xu Zhiyong and What His Detention Means for Rule of Law in China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Hu Jintao, People's Republic of China, Rule of Law, Tax Evasion, Chinese Democracy, Public-Interest-Lawyers, Communist Party, Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Sichuan Earthquake, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Government, Anti-Discrimination Law, Xu-Zhiyong, China National People's Congress, Rule of Law China, World News

The Chinese Communist Party is unified by one principle: to remain in power. Any organized effort, even if within the confines of the law, will be viewed as a threat to the CCP's authority.

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In Venezuela, a Tale of Two Judges

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

The fact that Chávez has taken over the courts means that Venezuela may look like a democracy to fawning movie stars and celebrity athletes of the vanguard left, but the core is rotten and lawless.

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After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Natalia Estemirova, Freedom of the Press, Human Rights, Crime, Robert Amsterdam, Violence, Russia, Vladimir Putin, United States, Justice, Europe, Barack Obama, Journalism, Dmitry Medvedev, Anna Politkovskaya, Rule of Law, Paul Klebnikov, World News

What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?

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Torturing the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Rule of Law, Obama Torture Prosecutions, International Law, Criminal Justice, Discrimination, Eric Holder, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Our nation continues to undermine international law by sweeping torture under the rug, with serious implications going forward.

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A Hobbesian Choice for Obama?

William Fisher | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Rule-of-Law, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

If Obama opts for "indefinite detention" a large slice of his base constituency will go ballistic. So, if he were a cynic, his political calculus might be: "Where can they go?" John McCain?

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"Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

Hannah Fisher | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Abuse of Power, Houses of Parliament, Law, Political Corruption, British Expense Scandal, Politics, Rule of Law, UK Politics, Law and Order, Gordon Brown, British Politics, World News

The legitimacy of Parliament will remain open to dispute until promise of change actuates into real reform.

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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When it Comes to Torture, No One is Above the Law

John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Photos, Seymour Hersh, Antonio Taguba, President Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Rule of Law, Politics News

American law is clear as to what constitutes torture. Those within the Bush administration who sanctioned torture, deliberately and unapologetically violated U.S. law and must be held responsible.

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Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Charles Krauthammer, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Rule of Law, Guantanamo, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, American Enterprise Institute, Jay Bybee, Constitution, Dan Froomkin, Benjamin Franklin, Torture, Gop, Politics News

Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.

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To Detain or Not o Detain

Stephen Herrington | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fifth Category, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Dick Cheney, Politics News

How do you treat a terrorist/soldier in a new order of conflict?

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The American Myth and Chinese Reality

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Signing Statements, China, Rule of Law, Beijing-China, Politics News

China's Premier has said that his country's judicial system needs to be reformed in order to assure the judiciary's "dignity, justice and independence." He is seeking rule of law -- not rule by law.

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An Officer's Obligation -- Say No to Torture

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Constitution, Torture Memos, Rule of Law, Torture, Politics News

As a former active duty military officer, it is troubling to me that other military officers followed unlawful orders to torture or abuse prisoners.

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Arguing Whether Torture "Works" Is a Dangerous Dialogue

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Us Constitution, President Obama, Geneva Convention, Torture, Rule of Law, Hermann Goering, Politics News

The political dialogue on the Bush administration's torture policy seems inappropriately focused on whether it "works." Can anyone seriously contend that there is a yes-or-no answer to that question?

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New GOP Meme: "Ends Justify The Means" When It Comes to Torture

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Dick Cheney Waterboarding, Terrorist Attack, Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

In America, the ends never justify the means when it comes to violating the law and constitutional rights. Those are our values. Or so I thought.

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Torture and the Problem of Constitutional Evil: The Way Forward

Howard Schweber | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Lawyers, War on Terror, Graber, Impeachment, Yoo, Rule of Law, Truth Commission, Executive Authority, Noonan, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Evil, Addington, Prosecutions, Bybee, Constitution, Torture, Politics News

I have no hesitation in asserting that Judge Bybee should be subjected to impeachment proceedings, and that Bybee, Yoo, Addington et al. should face disbarment proceedings.

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Fear and Loathing of Change

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Memos, Nuremberg Trials, President Obama, Torture, Timothy McVeigh, Rule of Law, Gitmo, Obama, President Bush, Politics News

I'm not a lawyer. I can't see a law school from my house. But I know the dark, twisted, sick, fetish language in the torture memos is not what America stands for.

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Impeach Bybee

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Bybee, Impeachment, Torture Memos, Rule of Law, Torture, Legal Torture, Watergate, Illegal Torture, Torture in U.S., 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Crime, Politics News

Congress needs to immediately begin an impeachment proceeding against Bybee for his criminal behavior. If torture is not a high crime and misbehavior, nothing is.

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