Franklin Lamb, a former Assistant Counsel of the US House Judiciary Committee at the US Congress and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil, and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following three summers at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center where he specialized in Chinese Law. He was the first westerner allowed by the government of China to visit the notorious “Ward Street” Prison in Shanghai. Lamb is doing research in Lebanon and works with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon and the Sabra-Shatila Foundation. His new book, The Case for Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon, is due out shortly.

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Articles by Franklin Lamb :

New Challenges Grip Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps – OpEd

The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: it seems like a dozen weeks, not 30 years ago. This year American citizens received messages to

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The Pope And The Palestinians – OpEd

The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he

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Sure Obama Caved Again On Palestine, But Will He Benefit? – OpEd

As a former law professor President Obama knows something about international law and US constitutional law which he taught at

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Is The Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged To Weaken Hezbollah? – OpEd

One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days. Pressures, often intense, resulting

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America Preparing For A Post-Israel Middle East? – OpEd

Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month’s Republican

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Hope And Despair For Lebanon’s Palestinians – OpEd

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Remarkably, this Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar

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The Sinai Joins The Axis Of Resistance – OpEd

The Sinai Peninsula has rejoined the Arab and Islamic Resistance as this great awakening spreads inexorably across the region toppling

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Obama Trumps AIPAC, Romney, Republicans With Yet More Iranian Sanctions – OpEd

According to the Obama Presidential campaign issues staff, temporarily operating out of the Democratic National Committee HQ at 430 South

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Hypocrisy Over Hezbollah Arms – OpEd

From this observers experience in Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet

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Now’s Not The Time For Hezbollah To Cut-And-Run – OpEd

This observer admits that politically speaking, things might appear a bit tough for Hezbollah these days but will spare the

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