JURIST - Paper Chase

Wednesday, February 12

Weapons of mass obstruction
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 03:41:34 PM

As Senate debate continued Wednesday on the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, the office of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch released a copy of a Tuesday floor statement in which the Senator deplored Democratic use of a filibuster and other "weapons of mass obstruction" to block a vote.

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ACLU on TIA curb
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 02:28:44 PM

The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday welcomed Congressional agreement on a funding curb for the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness cybersecurity and surveillance system pending review of privacy and civil liberties concerns.

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Harvard Law Review elects new President
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 01:32:04 PM

Congratulations to HLS 2L Daniel B. Kirshner. Read Wednesday's press release from Harvard Law School.

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The laws of war, US-style
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 01:28:01 PM

Professor Michael Byers of Duke Law School writes about the evolving rules of war as applied by the United States in the London Review of Books.

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Filibuster resources
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 01:03:48 PM

The Democrats have started a filibuster in the Senate to block a vote on the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Learn more about filibusters and cloture (the procedure for stopping debate) from the US Senate. Late US Attorney General Elliot Richardson wrote The Case Against the Senate Filibuster. FindLaw legal analyst and human rights attorney Joanne Mariner has written In Defense of the Filibuster.

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IAEA on North Korean breach of nuclear non-proliferation obligations
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 12:47:27 PM

The International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors Wednesday held North Korea in "non-compliance" with its nuclear safeguards obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other accords, and refered the matter to the UN Security Council. Read the IAEA Board Resolution, a statement by IAEA Chairman Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, and additional materials on the IAEA and North Korea. Get more background on North Korea's withdrawal from the NPT from Washington & Lee law professor Frederic Kirgis, writing for the American Society of International Law.

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ACLU on Patriot Act II
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 12:06:36 PM

The American Civil Liberties Union issued a highly-critical response Wednesday to the Justice Department's draft follow-up legislation to the USA Patriot Act, disclosed last week by the Center for Public Integrity. Read the ACLU press release.

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Human rights and globalization - Mary Robinson at Princeton
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 11:23:40 AM

Watch streaming video of former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson speaking on From Rhetoric to Reality: Human Rights and Globalization at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs on February 6.

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Weapons of mass destruction and international law
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 11:10:54 AM

Professor David P. Fidler of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington comments on the legal aspects of WMD for the American Society of International Law.

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ABA Midyear Meeting round-up
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 11:07:37 AM

The American Bar Association has issued this press release on the meeting concluded Tuesday. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America has slammed the ABA's position on restricting recovery for asbestos damages. Several Senators have meanwhile praised the ABA's stance on class action legislation.

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International trade conference
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 10:51:40 AM

Watch streaming video of Beyond the UNCITRAL Digest, a conference on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods held at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on February 7.

Piracy and copyright in China
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 10:40:03 AM

The Duke Law and Technology Review has just posted this iBrief.

Human cloning bills
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 08:11:55 AM

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up proposed human cloning legislation in a meeting scheduled for Wednesday at 10:15 ET. National Right to Life offers a legal backgrounder on the cloning-ban bill to be considered (which it approves) and various competing versions, including one recently introduced in the Senate by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (which it opposes). JURIST will carry live audio of the Committee meeting.

Senate Estrada debate, cont.
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 07:35:45 AM

The full Senate resumes debate Wednesday on the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the US DC Court of Appeals. Review part one and part two of Tuesday's debate in the Congressional Record.

February 12 - This day at law
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/12/2003 06:30:58 AM

On February 12, 1793, the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law prohibiting anyone from assisting a runaway slave.