February 16, 2006
Haiti, Iraq, and political transition
Joanna Quinn wrote a very informative post about Haiti here on TJF on Tuesday. I was going to post this as a comment on what she wrote, but saw it would be so long that it probably should be in...
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February 07, 2006
An Iceberg Ahead for the Iraqi High Tribunal?
Several events in recent days have called into question the direction being taken by the Iraqi High Tribunal in its trial of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants, and have raised questions about how effective such trials will be at helping...
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December 21, 2005
Arabic media responses to Saddam trial
How have the recent stages of Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq been reported in the Arabic-language media? This is a non-trivial question, especially if one prime goal of war-crimes courts is to effect the "re-education" of populations about the non-negotiatibility...
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December 10, 2005
Saddam trial: news & media resources
Around a month ago, I signed up for "Google News Alerts", which promised to send me every day every news item Google could sweep up that contained those two search words. The daily collections of these have been coming to...
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November 13, 2005
The Iraqi High Tribunal and Insurgent Violence
The killing last week of Adel Muhammad al-Zubaidi, the second defense lawyer working on the Saddam Hussein trial to be murdered, again brings to the fore the questionable ability of the Iraqi High Tribunal (which now officially has changed its...
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October 29, 2005
The Day After in Iraq
I’ve been working on a law review article about the need for a more complex and multifaceted approach to transitional justice in Iraq, and it strikes me how much attention is given to details of the trial of Saddam Hussein,...
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October 19, 2005
War crimes trials: procedures or politics?
The war-crimes trial of Saddam Hussein and seven other co-defendants opened briefly today (see also here ), and was adjourned after just 2 hours and 11 minutes of court time. They are charged with the murder of 143 men...
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October 18, 2005
The Saddam Hussein trial and the transition in Iraq
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September 27, 2005
Dissecting the Iraqi Special Tribunal
On September 26, the New York Times carried two Op-ed pieces, respectively by Gary J. Bass and Eric Posner, that argued two very different "cases" about the working of the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Taken together, these articles raise some thought-provoking...
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