Real-time comments on legal news by newsmakers, activists, legal experts and special guests. http://jurist.org/hotline JURISTremove_this@pitt.edu JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Leonard, the Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University, says the ICC should constantly adhere to a policy of prudent advocacy, since interfering in "low-level" situations would cause a multitude of legal, political and financial problems...Recently a group of http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/eric-leonard-icc-jurisdiction.php 2012-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/eric-leonard-icc-jurisdiction.php Stephen Krug JURIST Guest Columnist Jill Levenson, Associate Professor of Psychology at Lynn University, says that sex offender residency restrictions often do little to prevent repeat offenses because are based on stereotypical notions of recidivism among sex offenders...Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/jill-levenson-sexoffenders-residency.php 2012-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/jill-levenson-sexoffenders-residency.php Leah Kathryn Sell JURIST Guest Columnist Kelsey Alford-Jones, Director of Guatemala Human Rights Commission, argues that it is important for the Public Prosecutor's Office and president to follow through with the genocide charges against Rios Montt to strengthen Guatemala's judiciary and bring justice to the victims of genocide...On http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/kelsey-alford-jones-montt.php 2012-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/kelsey-alford-jones-montt.php Brandy Ringer JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Hale, Senior Counsel at the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, argues that the Convention Against Torture should not be used as a tool to protect those accused of torture and that the ECCC must prosecute those responsible for torture http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/christopher-hale-eccc-torture.php 2012-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/christopher-hale-eccc-torture.php Edward SanFilippo JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Milito, Senior Executive Counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, says that a case recently argued before the Supreme Court will have significant implications for the jurisprudence surrounding judicial deference for regulations promulgated by executive departments...On http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/elizabeth-milito-irs-chevron.php 2012-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/elizabeth-milito-irs-chevron.php Sean Gallagher JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn Taubman, Staff Attorney for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, argues that President Obama's "recess" appointments of three new members to the National Labor Relations Board are invalid because the Senate was not actually in recess at the time http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/glenn-taubman-appointments.php 2012-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/glenn-taubman-appointments.php Brandy Ringer JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, says that in the recent Golan v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court may have opened the door to reconsidering the unconstitutional practice of augmenting congressional authority in the name of http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/ilya-shapiro-treaty-power.php 2012-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/ilya-shapiro-treaty-power.php Stephen Krug JURIST Guest Columnist Johann Bihr, Director of the Press Desk for Europe and Central Asia at Reporters Without Borders, says a new Belarusian law not only limits the online freedoms of individuals, but also creates harsh penalties for Internet providers, all in a government effort http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/johann-bihr-belarus-internet.php 2012-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/johann-bihr-belarus-internet.php Leah Kathryn Sell JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss...A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation's http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/will-potter-aeta-terrorism.php 2012-01-23T11:24:04-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/will-potter-aeta-terrorism.php Leah Kathryn Sell JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Lipschultz of the University of Nebraska at Omaha says that in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., it seems likely that the Supreme Court will not force the Federal Communications Commission to alter its vague and subjective indecency policy and will http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/jeremy-lipschultz-fcc-indecency.php 2012-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/01/jeremy-lipschultz-fcc-indecency.php Stephen Krug