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Author: Deborah Pearlstein

12 Jun

While there's much, much more to be said on the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision today in Boumediene, the not-quite-companion case involving U.S. citizens held by the Americans in Iraq also came down today—and the news there is hardly pro-detainee. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that while the U.S. federal courts have jurisdiction to hear the habeas petitions of...

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23 Jan

[Opinio Juris welcomes Deborah Pearlstein as a guest respondent. She will spend the coming year as an Associate Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. For the past three years, she has directed the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First.] With thanks to Opinio Juris for inviting me to engage...

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