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Kristine Long, Jurist Student Staff Association (JSSA) President, Pitt Law '11, attended the First Annual JSSA Debate... The first debate hosted by the JURIST Student Staff Association concerned the heated topics of terrorism and national security. These topics have became...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing to consider the nomination of James Cole for deputy attorney general. Republican members of the committee used the hearing to offer...

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 Authorization Acts for Fiscal Year 2010 is a clear example of...

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 of al Qaeda and the Taliban outside of federal district courts or...

Military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday sought to delay the trials of three suspected terrorists while the US government revises the military commission system used to try them. At the second day...

A former prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay told the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the military commission system used to try detained enemy combatants is "broken beyond repair." In testimony [prepared remarks,...

Retired Rear Admiral John Hutson , formerly the US Navy's Judge Advocate General , argued Tuesday that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) should be repealed rather than reformed. At a...

The US Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday the approval an appropriations bill that would alter the rules of evidence used in military commission trials. The version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that a reconstituted military commission at Guantanamo Bay set up to only prosecute aliens would necessarily violate bilateral treaties, create a "denial of justice" for aliens under...

Gabor Rona : "Last Friday, the Obama administration for the first time articulated in court its vision of authority to detain persons who are now being held at Guantanamo. The government's brief in the In...