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Grave Allegations: If this week’s testimony by diplomat Richard Colvin is proven, Canada’s complicity in torture goes to the highest levels – an inquiry is needed
November 24, 2009 – 2:40 pm | No Comment
Grave Allegations: If this week’s testimony by diplomat Richard Colvin is proven, Canada’s complicity in torture goes to the highest levels – an inquiry is needed

By Errol Mendes
A courageous Canadian public servant and former diplomat in Afghanistan gave stunning testimony to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, that while focused on the treatment of detainees transferred to Afghan authorities by …

Saskatchewan lawyers say Tory treatment of Omar Khadr denies basic rights – By Bob Weber
May 14, 2009 – 6:32 pm | No Comment
Saskatchewan lawyers say Tory treatment of Omar Khadr denies basic rights – By Bob Weber

By Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS

SASKATOON – The federal government is being accused of violating Omar Khadr’s basic rights every day it …

EDITORIAL from The Globe and Mail: Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry
April 29, 2009 – 1:36 pm | No Comment
EDITORIAL from The Globe and Mail: Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry

From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …

America and the Rule of Law in Pakistan
March 12, 2009 – 12:55 pm | No Comment
America and the Rule of Law in Pakistan

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers’ movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan’s …

Book Review: The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency by David Dyzenhaus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 250 Pages.
April 17, 2008 – 7:02 pm | No Comment
Book Review: The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency by David Dyzenhaus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 250 Pages.

By FAISAL KUTTY
York University – Osgoode Hall Law School
Abstract:
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the ensuing war on terror has brought to the fore a number of issues that were not previously …

The price we pay? Letter to The Editor, The Globe and Mail
February 26, 2006 – 6:51 pm | No Comment
The price we pay? Letter to The Editor, The Globe and Mail

February 26, 2006
Letters to the Editor
The Globe and Mail
Marvin Kurz contends (The rights of terrorists? What rights? Feb. 25) that terrorists should not have any rights. This ignores some important issues:
1. The Universal …