As President Bush finished his second term in 2008, an inquiry by the International Commission of Jurists found that the CIA's mobilization of allied security agencies worldwide had done serious damage to the international rule of law.
A 1994 report from an International Commission of Jurists found that the Japanese military set up a vast network of Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Dutch and Filipino women to staff "comfort stations" — essentially brothels where they'd be forced to be sexually subservient to military men.
The best choice is a special tribunal established by the United Nations with judges from Iraq, if qualified jurists are found, and from other countries -- with as many from Islamic nations as possible.
The report — produced by a panel of investigators led by an internationally respected jurist, Richard Goldstone — found extensive evidence that both Israel and Palestinian militant groups took actions amounting to war crimes during the Gaza war last winter.
The report, produced by a panel of investigators led by an internationally respected jurist, Richard Goldstone, found extensive evidence that both Israel and Palestinian militant groups took actions amounting to war crimes during last winter's Gaza war.
A report by the council into the 2008-2009 war, conducted by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, found evidence that Israel and Hamas both committed war crimes, though Goldstone later backed off his key allegations against Israel.
They also adopted a Romantic notion of authorship — fetishizing the originality of the fevered, Byronic genius — though jurists like the Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story found the standard of unstained originality all but useless for adjudicating copyright disputes.
A conservative jurist might find that money is a form of speech, that a corporation is a legal person, and that restrictions on corporations spending infinite sums on political campaigns infringes their First Amendment rights.
Antonio Cassese, a prominent Italian jurist who helped found two international war-crimes tribunals and who was often described as the chief architect of modern international criminal justice, died early Saturday at his home in Florence, Italy.
By that measure, several studies have found, Judge Sotomayor is a mainstream jurist.
Ms. Adler's charges startled some of the nation's best investigative journalists who had covered Watergate and found Judge Sirica to be a principled jurist with no known connections to organized crime.
