Sidebar is JURIST's platform for legal professionals, offering perspectives by lawyers and judges on national and international legal developments. http://jurist.org/sidebar JURIST@pitt.REMOVE_THISedu JURIST Guest Columnist Angelique Devaux, a French attorney and LL.M graduate of the Robert McKinney School of Law, discusses the impact of conflict of laws on the same-sex marriage bill passed in France...In a time when France has lost its fame for crusading for human http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/05/angelique-devaux-same-sex-marriage.php 2013-05-13T13:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/05/angelique-devaux-same-sex-marriage.php Stephanie Kogut JURIST Guest Columnist Megan Lindsey, counsel for the National Council for Adoption, discusses the legal and practical impact of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl and the Indian Child Welfare Act...On April 16, 2013, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Adoptive Couple v. Baby http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/05/megan-lindsey-adoptive-couple.php 2013-05-06T14:15:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/05/megan-lindsey-adoptive-couple.php Stephanie Kogut JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Abramson of Rimon PC argues that in the absence of sufficient evidence, public policy favors the patentability of genetic tools...The conventional shorthand for the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, Inc. case, argued before the Supreme Court on April 15, 2013, http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/bruce-abramson-genetic-patents.php 2013-04-30T16:45:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/bruce-abramson-genetic-patents.php John Paul Regan JURIST Guest Columnist Joseph Marren of KStone Partners LLC continues his discussion of Caperton and the Statement and Account Clause...The Court in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Inc. asks not whether the judge is actually, subjectively biased, but whether the average judge in his http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/joseph-marren-caperton-partII.php 2013-04-18T15:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/joseph-marren-caperton-partII.php Stephen Krug JURIST Guest Columnist Colin Reingold of the Orleans Parish Public Defenders discusses the recent constitutional challenge to the Louisiana "felon with a firearm" statute... On March 21, 2013, Judge Darryl Derbigny of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court granted a motion challenging the constitutionality of http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/colin-reingold-lousiana-guns.php 2013-04-14T15:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/colin-reingold-lousiana-guns.php Alexandra Cabonor JURIST Guest Columnists Hank Asbill, Brian Murray, and Andrew Pinson of Jones Day argue that allowing prosecutors to use a defendant's refusal to answer pre-arrest, pre-Miranda law enforcement questioning as substantive evidence of guilt violates the Fifth Amendment and would permit abusive tactics and government http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/asbill-murray-pinson-salinas.php 2013-04-11T12:45:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/asbill-murray-pinson-salinas.php Sean Gallagher JURIST Guest Columnist Joseph Marren of KStone Partners LLC says that, because no person is permitted to be a judge in their own case, Congress should not be able to unilaterally determine whether it is complying with the Statement and Account Clause...On June 8, 2009, http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/joseph-marren-sa-caperton-part1.php 2013-04-08T16:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/04/joseph-marren-sa-caperton-part1.php Stephen Krug JURIST Guest Columnists Kambiz Behi of EnterInvest and Edsel Tupaz of Tupaz and Associates discuss the geopolitical issues Ukraine faces in trying to integrate itself in the European Union...The breakup of the Soviet Union placed Ukraine in a particular geopolitical situation vis-à-vis the European Union http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/kambiz-behi-edsel-tupaz-ukraine-eu.php 2013-03-21T16:15:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/kambiz-behi-edsel-tupaz-ukraine-eu.php Michael Muha JURIST Guest Columnist Joseph Marren of KStone Partners LLC says that the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants must seriously reconsider its decision to designate the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board as the "generally accepted accounting principles" standards setter for the federal government...Justice John Paul http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/joseph-marren-citizens-part4.php 2013-03-13T11:40:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/joseph-marren-citizens-part4.php Stephen Krug http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/behi-tupaz-russian-deposits.php 2013-03-07T12:55:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/sidebar/2013/03/behi-tupaz-russian-deposits.php Stephanie Kogut