Jurist Coalition for Human Rights (JCHR), Jerusalem

In August 2004, Brazil elected Dr. Silvia Pimentel, a renowned jurist and feminist, as one of the experts to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

The United Nations should put a stop to such practices by appointing without delay a new independent jurist to assist the Special Representative, the post having been vacant since 1999.

The basic rights of the Saharan people had been recognized by the international community he called for the appointment of a new Independent Jurist for Western Sahara, a position which had been vacant since 1999.

An independent election commission was created by law. And a respected Jordanian jurist who had been a judge at the International Court of Justice was reprimanded for dragging his feet in getting the election law passed.

A vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh is a vote to confirm one of the most accomplished legal minds of our time, a jurist with a sterling record of public service, he told the crowd of West Virginia supporters.

The 1979 revolution, which ended Iran s monarchical tradition, created a new political order based on Shiite theological foundations and giving absolute ruling power to a Shiite jurist cleric. Throughout Iran s long history, Shiite seminaries exercised great influence on Iranian society and politics, but they had been considered civil institutions.

As both the Security Council and the General Assembly have agreed on the candidate, the distinguished jurist Mr. Ronny Abraham has been elected as a member of the International Court of Justice for the remainder of the term of office of Judge Guillaume, that is, until 5 February 2009.

36. Decides to establish by 1 March 2008 a five member Internal Justice Council consisting of a staff representative, a management representative and two distinguished external jurists, one nominated by the staff and one by management, and chaired by a distinguished jurist chosen by consensus by the four other members

On the face of it, democratic self defense seems a legitimate goal. As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not a suicide pact a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.

The modern view of the effect of armed conflict on treaties is that the question of whether treaties survive the outbreak of hostilities is resolved according to the type of treaty involved. The task of the modern jurist, therefore, has been to determine which types of treaties continue in force during and after armed conflict, which are suspended and which are abrogated.

The wording of the Martens Clause in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols supports the view that its purpose is to clarify that customary international humanitarian law applies during an armed conflict, guiding the jurist to look for this law in the dictates of public conscience , but what is the resultant effect on treaties codifying this public conscience?