Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Two recent conferences have examined the results of the Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. A Georgetown University Law Center panel included the Georgetown law professor, Neal Katyal, who successfully argued the case before the Court. It is entitled Guantanamo and the Rule of Law: Military Tribunals and the Geneva Conventions and can be found here. [Video, Quicktime required, 1:30 min]. Another conference, at Washington College of Law (American University) is entitled Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Implications of Military Commissions. It is available in two mp3 recordings of about one and a half hours each. Part 1 is here, part 2 here. For an earlier view of the same subject, you can find here a panel discussion of the Hamdan case at Georgetown a day after it was handed down in June. It is in either video (Quicktime) or audio (.mp3), and a transcript is available here.

Hamdan Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was decided by the Supreme Court on June 29. The Bush administration lost the case, but legal observers do not agree about its ultimate importance. To hear about the decision, you can go to NPR full coverage here. Other discussions with legal experts about the case can be found on Boston's WBUR here and here. Australian radio's The Law Report has this. The audio (streaming RealAudio or .mp3) from this site is available for only a month, the transcript will be on the site for a longer period. PBS Online NewsHour has a review of the full Supreme Court year here, with a discussion of Hamdan about 7 minutes into the recording. As usual for NewsHour, you will find a transcript and a recording (either streaming RealAudio or an .mp3 file to download). For a general review of the past Supreme Court term, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec06/scotus_07-03.html The audio is either streaming (RealPlayer) or in .mp3 format. Hamdan is discussed around 7 min. into the recording.

Terrorism, Military Tribunals, and the Constitution, featuring Charles Swift, Lieutenant Commander, USN Military Counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan; and Richard Samp, Chief Counsel Washington Legal Foundation. You can watch with RealPlayer (video or audio), or download an audio .mp3 file by going here. 59 mins. To watch the video of a talk,"The Role of Courts in Time of War", given by Burt Neuborne, Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU Law School and former National Legal Director for the ACLU, speaking at Duke Law School, click here. RealPlayer, 59 mins.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld The RealAudio recording with "subtitles" is now available at the Oyez site. You can also go to Oyez's special Hamdan v. Rumsfeld page and then click on "audio". The MP3/SMIL format is the one with subtitles.

More audio about the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld argued yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court NPR - Supreme Court Debates Military Trials for Detainees - links for various exerpts of the recorded oral arguments - March 28, 2006 NPR - All Things Considered - Supreme Court Questions Military Trials for Detainees - with Nina Totenberg March 28, 2006 (11:56 min.) NPR - Morning Edition - High Court Voices Skepticism of President's Tribunals - with Nina Totenberg March 29, 2006 (5:43 min.)

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan on March 28. News reports about the oral argument can be found on the PBS program Online NewsHour here (15:15 min, transcript with a few mistakes). Talk of the Nation on NPR has a long (47:55 min.) discussion of the case here. The oral arguments themselves can be heard on C-Span by clicking here. Georgetown University has made them available in .mp3 format here. There is no transcript yet, but a version of the audio with "subtitles" will probably be available soon. The Hamdan case is extremely complicated and has some accessory questions as well. For instance, should Justice Scalia recuse himself because of remarks he made in Switzerland? You can find a discussion on Boston public radio with the Newsweek journalist who broke the story here. Another question — did two Senators try to deceive the Court concerning the legislative history of one of the laws being interpreted? Emily Bazelon, a journalist for the online magazine Slate, raises the question here and can be heard on NPR here.

More podcasts and audio downloads You can find another collection of links to legal podcasts here. The excellent Washington School of Law podcast series has just posted recordings about Rights of Guantanamo Detainees and a series of talks about the Legal Dimensions of Climate Change. For in depth coverage of the news on American "public" (non-commercial) television, you can to to PBS Newshour. You can get the transcript for these recordings by going here and then clicking on the title of the story.