Indefinite Detention: Campaign Promises Meet Political Realities
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston say that despite his campaign promises, it seems that President Obama has made the political calculation that...
View ArticleGood News About GTMO and Bagram
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says President Obama's inability to...
View ArticleConstructive Criticism: Presidential Opposition to Supreme Court Rulings
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that although a president should naturally be careful to avoid demonstrating disrespect for the Supreme...
View ArticleA Solomonic Judgment on Elections in Iraq
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, professor of law at the University of Utah and Saint Joseph's University, Lebanon, says that for the sake of stability in Iraq's upcoming elections, it's...
View ArticleTorture as Foreign Policy: The Omar Khadr Decision
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying...
View ArticlePakistan: New 'Judges' Case' in the Making?
JURIST Guest Columnists Moeen Cheema of Australian National University College of Law and Shahzad Akbar, an advocate practicing at the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, say that since Pakistan President's...
View ArticleThe Yoo/Bybee Report: Let a Jury Decide
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the guilt or innocence of "enhanced interrogation" memo writers John Yoo and Jay Bybee should be determined in...
View ArticleSCOTUS Memo: Challenging the 'Material Support' Laws
JURIST Special Guest Columnists Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel at the Constitution Project, and Karen Bloom, legal fellow with the Constitution Project, say that the US Supreme Court's...
View ArticleLearning from Toyota's Troubles - Where's the Board?
JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Aronson of Creighton University School of Law says that Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota's current safety crisis - now the subject of Congressional hearings - should...
View ArticleJapanese Whaling: When Diplomacy Fails, Call the ICJ
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of Australian National University College of Law says that in the context of unpromising diplomatic negotiations between Japan and Australia with regard to Japanese...
View ArticleDefining Democracy in Iraq
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that while democracy in Iraq may look one way in second Iraqi general election on Sunday, it may evolve to look very...
View ArticleThe Qom Enrichment Facility: Was Iran Legally Bound to Disclose?
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says that, reflective of the central tension between nonproliferation and peaceful use, Iran has not clearly violated any...
View ArticlePanic Legislation: The Wrong Response
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that the McCain-Lieberman military detention bill recently introduced in the Senate is yet another unfortunate instance...
View ArticleKeeping America in the Dark
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says a recent effort by a conservative advocacy website to besmirsch the reputations of current DOJ lawyers who...
View ArticleCourt-martial: A Third Option for Trying Al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says regularly constituted military courts-martial could be a plausible third option for federal prosecution of members...
View ArticleA Better Course: More on the Court-martial Alternative to Military Commissions
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), a former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and currently a professor at South Texas College of...
View ArticleRoberts' Response: Not Out of Line (Either)
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says recent comments by Chief Justice Roberts responding to President Obama's criticism of the Supreme Court's...
View ArticleSovereignty, Atrocities and Accountability
JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic says while legal debates about sovereign immunity most often center on principles of comity versus principles of...
View ArticleSupervising Intelligence: A Checked and Balanced Approach to National Security
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston say that Congress’s effort to gain greater oversight of certain intelligence actions through the Intelligence...
View ArticleProsecuting Terror Suspects in Federal Court: The Right Choice
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the bipartisan Washington DC-based Constitution Project, says that US Attorney General Eric Holder should stand by his decision to try...
View ArticleThe US-Israel Standoff over Settlements
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Kattan of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, says that morally, legally, and politically the...
View ArticleNot Child's Play: Revisiting the Law of Child Soldiers
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Chris Jenks (USA), Chief of the International Law Branch of the Office of the Judge Advocate General, says that the discussion on child soldiers in general and...
View ArticleIs Health Care Reform Constitutional?
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that although challenges to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are valuable...
View ArticleThe Iraqi High Court's Understated Rise to Legitimacy
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a look at recent decisions by Iraq's Federal Supreme Court illustrates the court's growing...
View ArticleArizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that Arizona's new immigration legislation - requiring law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have...
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