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In a JURIST Forum special, JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross, Professor of Law at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Alabama, reviews the third day of the Senate confirmation hearings for US Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, and...

Language Barriers to Justice in California, California Commission on Access to Justice, September 13, 2005 [concluding there is a "dire and unmet need for language assistance" in California civil courts, and arging that many people cannot effectively defend themselves or...

As the US Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on John Roberts' nomination as the next Chief Justice of the United States, JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller, Professor of Law at Western New England College of Law, says the Court's federalism...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

The last of the publicly accessible documents authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in storage at the Reagan Library in were released simultaneously Thursday in California and Washington, DC. The thousands of...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed a diverse group of leaders to his Baghdad residence on Sunday in an effort to sort out the remaining stumbling blocks in the Iraq constitution . Talabani also...

Exxon Mobil Corp v. Allapattah Services and Ortega v. Star-Kist Foods, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, June 23, 2005 [ruling 5-4 that a rule requiring a federal court claim in a diversity action to be worth $75,000 is...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand without comment a lower court ruling that overturned new FCC regulations that would have allowed greater media consolidation. Several major media conglomerates, including News Corp. , Clear Channel ,...

Gonzales v. Raich, United States Supreme Court, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Given the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a native of Aix-en-Provence who returned to France to vote in its referendum on the European Constitution, says that...