JURIST Contributing Editor, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author Marjorie Cohn discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries ... On January 27, 2017, President Trump made good on...
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JURIST guest columnist Roy S. Gutterman of the Syracuse University College of Law discusses recent changes to Malaysian sedition law...Sedition, laws criminalizing criticism of a monarchy or government, is not as anachronistic as knights in shining armor or a moat...
Federal Shield Protection Needed to Protect Investigative Journalism
Sandra Davidson, University of Missouri School of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Derek Bambauer of Brooklyn Law School says that the increased censorship of journalists worldwide is a result of technological innovations, which facilitate dissemination of information, but heighten the perceived threat to governments fighting to maintain control...Journalists have...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would protect journalists' abilities to shield sources in federal court proceedings. Under the Free Flow of Information Act , which was approved 14-5, the federal...
White House, lawmakers reach compromise on journalist shield bill
The Obama administration, top lawmakers, and news organizations reached an agreement Friday on legislation that would protect journalists from being forced to reveal their sources in federal court. The compromise version of the Free Flow of Information...
White House objects to journalist shield proposal on national security grounds
The Obama administration on Wednesday informed Congress that it objects to a proposed journalist shield law that would protect journalists who refuse to disclose sources that leak national security information. Under changes proposed by the administration, a reporter who...
US shield law's qualified privileges would aid journalists both at home and abroad
Frank Smyth : "There is nothing that repressive regimes like more than pointing the finger at someone else. Nearly four years ago, after journalists including Judith Miller then of The New York Times were...
The US House of Representatives approved Tuesday a bill that would limit the government's ability to compel reporters to disclose confidential sources by delineating conditions under which it may do so. The Free Flow of Information Act...
The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit the government's ability to compel reporters to disclose confidential sources. Under the terms of the Free Flow of Information Act of...