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From the USA PATRIOT Act to the Homeland Security Act; from 9/11 to
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; from the War on Drugs to the War
on Terrorism—those who work in the legal profession and the average
American alike have cause for concern. Indeed, executives, managers
and volunteers with NGOS the world over share a common cause: justice.
In the disturbing new landscape, rights and liberties we once took
for granted are increasingly imperiled.
With the legality of the recent wars in question, and hundreds of
detainees locked up and denied their constitutionally guaranteed due
process rights; with the government threatening to use secret military
commissions that have the power to sentence inmates to death—to
say nothing of the U.S. withdrawal of support for the International
Criminal Court—now more than ever, both professionals and lay
readers need to stay fully informed.
JUSTICE Magazine [working title]
will examine, as no single publication on the market does, the transformation
of U.S. law under the USA PATRIOT Act and other policies and regulations,
with a special scrutiny of the dramatic civil liberties implications,
the impact on religious and ethnic minorities, and the assault on
privacy, freedom of speech, press and association.
The interests served by organizations like the ACLU, the Center for
Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International,
the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and many others
will be addressed with the forthcoming online publication of a major
national voice for justice.
JUSTICE Magazine aims to provide
intelligent, cogent, accurate coverage of criminal and constitutional
law, human rights, international law and immigration issues. Through
savvy, well-written features, exposés and articles, JUSTICE
will explore and illuminate the news that doesn’t
always make the news.
With JUSTICE we will bring together
the best legal minds from the mainstream and independent press, along
with the most persistent investigative journalists and dedicated activist
leaders, enabling readers to find the most important justice and rights
issues covered in one handsome publication.
JUSTICE Magazine will be published
as an online weekly that will include daily web updates, a web log
(blog), and a discussion board.
JUSTICE will serve the interests
of attorneys working in areas of criminal defense, constitutional
law, immigration law and international human rights and criminal law;
it will also serve other criminal and international justice professionals.
JUSTICE will be a much-needed
publication for young professionals working with human rights organizations
and other NGOs. It will also be essential reading for everyone concerned
with how the United States conducts itself internationally, what the
crisis points are in the world today, and how law and human justice
may be affected.
JUSTICE will showcase news and
features about issues that major NGOs are working on around the world,
with regard to human rights, crime, war and international justice
issues. The magazine will create a focal point where these issues
can converge. Written by attorneys and investigative reporters, with
occasional editorials and features from NGO leaders, including United
Nations officials, diplomats and others, JUSTICE
will provide a fascinating forum in which to learn about, debate and
take action on the most compelling legal and human rights issues of
our times.
Very few of the major legal, civil and human rights organizations
publish their own professional magazines. Instead, crucial rights
and liberties topics are often left to trade publications and academic
journals, newsletters and in-house reports, or they are addressed
only periodically in existing mainstream news magazines.
Advertising revenues will come from the professional class of criminal
justice professionals, from book publishers, universities and some
of the nonprofit organizations whose interests are regularly addressed
in the editorial areas of the publication. Commercial advertising
will be accepted if it meets established criteria.
JUSTICE Magazine will appeal to
concerned citizens and residents, law students, criminal justice professionals,
legislators, politicians and educators.
:
: JUSTICE MAGAZINE IS SEEKING : :
We seek
to assemble a strong international advisory board, and editorial committee,
with some of the best names in the fields of criminal defense, constitutional
law, human and civil rights and international law.
We seek support for the project from organizations with the most to
gain from JUSTICE's publication,
including the ACLU, Amnesty International, Amnesty USA, Human Rights
Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, National Association of
Criminal Defense Attorneys, Center for Constitutional Rights, the
Bill of Rights Association, the many law schools around the country,
and from the International Criminal Court and the Hague as well as
the United Nations.
Our first task is to procure funds to underwrite the creation of our
business plan and our beta web site, while we form our advisory and
editorial boards. Our second task is to use the business plan to fund
a marketing survey, then prepare the ground to launch the magazine,
while we attract investors and complete the web site and marketing
plans.
If you would like to support this project by signing on to the international
advisory board or the editorial committee, please send a letter of
interest to Jordan Elgrably,
acting editor. You may also reach Jordan Elgrably by phone, 310.559.5544.
Please provide a list of other attorneys, academics, NGO leaders or
others you feel may be interested in supporting JUSTICE's
development process and launch. |
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Marjorie Cohn,
J.D.
Jordan Elgrably,
legal editor
Laurie Levenson, J.D.
Inga Parsons, J.D.
Stephen
F. Rohde, J.D.
Shahrzad
Talieh, J.D.
Silja
Talvi, investigative reporter
Jennifer
Van Bergen, J.D.
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