Human Rights Law

Inmates In Bush’s Guantanamo Torture Prison Awaiting U.S. Government Kangaroo Court May Get To Call Home After Up To 6 Years In Extreme Isolation
US TAX DOLLARS AT WORK AT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years...

"Obama to close Guantanamo Bay prison quickly"
"Obama to close Guantanamo Bay prison quickly": Ed Henry, CNN senior White House correspondent, has a report that begins, "President-elect Barack Obama plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office to show a break from the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror, according to two officials close to the transition...

NPR: "Obama Orders Guantanamo Bay Prison Closure"
NPR.org: On Day 2 of his presidency, Barack Obama signed executive orders "designed to close Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, prohibit extreme interrogation practices and revisit military tribunals for suspected terrorists...

How Much Poetry Should a Law Professor Write
I wanted to follow up on some of the later comments in Paul's excellent recent post about what prawfs ought to be doing prior to getting tenure. David Zaring "mildly disagrees" with what he takes to be Paul's suggestion to "write your bliss" and says that a prawf who is inclined to write about his/her favorite poet's views about liberty might have more fun actually writing poetry...

More Property Poetry
While all the cool people are in New York for AALS, I'm sitting here in Tuscaloosa. So I thought that I'd post a little more property poetry. Like my most recent property poetry post (on John Rueben Thompson's poem about...

"Plans Being Drawn to Close Guantanamo Prison"
"Plans Being Drawn to Close Guantanamo Prison": This article appears today in The Washington Post. And Jonathan S. Landay and Margaret Talev of McClatchy Newspapers report that "Gates orders development of plans to close Guantanamo...