by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer On November 4th, an Italian court convicted in absentia 23 Americans–twenty-two purported CIA agents and one Air Force Officer–for their role in the kidnapping and rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, better known as Abu Omar. ...
by Jonathan Abrams | Nov 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Jonathan Abrams, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On September 4th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down an important ruling on preventive detention, holding that the federal government’s use of the material witness statute, 18 U.S.C. §...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer On October 11, 2009, The New York Times reported that, “Afghanistan’s judiciary is so weak that Afghans increasingly turn to a shadow Taliban court system,” especially in rural areas where people lack access to the judicial process. As the...
by Mat Trachok | Nov 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Mat Trachok, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer What exactly is the nature of the cyberterrorist threat? How realistic is the prospect of nation-to-nation cyberwarfare? How should the government respond to and protect against such threats? What role should...
by harvardnsj | Oct 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Peter Dickos, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer The interests of national security and human rights often seem in opposition to each other. If that is the rule, then it is one that Sarah Sewall, former Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s John...
by Mary Ostberg | Oct 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Mary Ostberg, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On Friday, October 16, 2009, the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that seven paragraphs of UK-U.S. exchanges detailing the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed should be disclosed. In reversing its 2008 ruling, the...
