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Event Video: Boumediene and Medellin: The Supreme Court?s 2008 International Law Opinions

Event Video: Boumediene and Medellin: The Supreme Court?s 2008 International Law Opinionshttp://www.asil.org/asiltv/video_080701.html July 1, 2008 The International Law Section Public International and Criminal Law Committee Litigation Section of the DC Bar in cooperation with the American Society of International Law presented a luncheon program. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2008 decisions in Medellin v. Texas and the consolidated cases Boumediene v. Bush will have an extraordinarily significant impact on the rights of criminal defendants in the United States and detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. At this program, which followed the release of the Court's final decisions of the current Term, counsel for several of the parties, including the United States, together with expert international law scholars and practitioners, discussed and debated the merits and potential ramifications of the rulings in these two key cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).