Kosovo's Independence: The Politics, Legality, and Philosophy of Secession , Duke Law School, March 24, 2008. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 6 mins. Watch recorded video.
District of Columbia v. Heller: The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms, Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and co-counsel for the plaintiff gun owners in District of Columbia v. Heller, Duke Law School, March 24, 2008. RealPlayer, 1 hr 2 mins. Watch recorded video.
An Inside Look at Guantanamo: A Muslim Chaplain's Struggle for Justice, University of Texas Law School, March 20, 2008 [speech by James Yee, former U.S. Army Chaplain]. QuickTime, 88 minutes. Watch recorded video.
Panel Discussion on Afghanistan: Bringing Rule of Law to a War-torn Country, United Nations, March 20, 2008. MP3, 1 hr. 43 mins. Listen to recorded audio [video not available].
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia, Yash Ghai, UN Human Rights Council, March 19, 2008. RealPlayer, 14 mins. Watch recorded video.
Why the Supreme Court Matters in a Presidential Election Year, Cato Institute, March 19, 2008. RealPlayer, 1 hr 13 mins. Watch recorded video. Additional information here.
District of Columbia v. Heller, oral arguments, United States Supreme Court, March 18, 2008 [appeal of Parker v. District case challenging the Second Amendment constitutionality of a DC firearms ban].
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of the Human Rights in Sudan, Sima Samar, UN Human Rights Council, March 17, 2008. RealPlayer, 11 mins. Watch recorded video.
The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court: press briefing on the US Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller, American Constitution Society, March 13, 2008. RealPlayer. Watch recorded video. Additional information here.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, on the FISA Amendments Act, March 14, 2008 [legislation that would extend the US government power to eavesdrop on individuals within the United States under judicial oversight but not grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies]. Flash, 7 minutes, via C-SPAN.
President Bush discusses proposed amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. RealPlayer, 5 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, UN Human Rights Council, March 13, 2008. RealPlayer, 15 minutes. Watch recorded video.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, UN Human Rights Council, March 10, 2008. RealPlayer, 17 minutes. Watch recorded video.
Press briefing on the release of the 2007 US State Department Country Reports, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Jonathan Farrar, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor March 11, 2008. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Hearing on Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the Internet, US House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force, March 11, 2008. RealPlayer, 2 hrs. Watch recorded video. Additional information here.
The U.S. v. John Lindh: Constitutional and Human Rights Implications of an Extraordinary Case, Duke Law School, March 6, 2008 [Frank R. Lindh discussing the case of his son John Walker Lindh, arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and currently serving a 20-year sentence for serving with the Taliban]. Watch recorded video.
Annual Report of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to the UN Human Rights Council, March 7, 2008 [reviewing recent developments in human rights and announcing that she will be stepping down after completion of her current term on June 30]. RealPlayer, 2 hrs 26 minutes. Watch recorded video.
Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Senate Judiciary Committee, March 5, 2008 [FBI Director Robert Mueller reviewing recent FBI operations and admitting FBI privacy violations in National Security Letter (NSL) investigations in 2006]. RealPlayer, 2 hrs 14 mins. Watch recorded video. Additional information here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Fighting for the Rule of Law in Pakistan, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), March 4, 2008 [featuring remarks by Pakistani lawyers movement leaders Hamid Khan, Muneer Malik and Sahibzada Anwar Hamid on President Pervez Musharraf’s sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and pushing for the restoration of the judiciary]. MP3, 1 hr 26 mins. Listen to recorded audio [video not available]. Additional information available here.
In re Marriage Cases oral arguments, March 4, 2008. Windows Media Player, 3 hrs 34 mins. Listen to recorded audio [video not available]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
From Rome to The Hague: The Creation and Development of the International Criminal Court, Yale Law School, March 3, 2008. QT, 50 minutes. Watch recorded video.
FISA Reform, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, March 3, 2008. MP3, 1 hr. 13 mins. Listen to recorded audio [video not available].
Resurrecting the Wall of Fear: The Human Rights Situation in Syria, United States Institute of Peace, February 29, 2008. MP3, 1 hr 25 mins. Listen to recorded audio [video not available]. Additional information available here.
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Special Tribunal for Lebanon briefing [UN]
