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JURIST Guest Columnist Linda Tashbook of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Rhode Island's new Homeless Bill of Rights provides an improved set of standards for how states should treat their indigent citizens...Legislatures can't force people to...

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JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer of the Northwestern University School of Law says that although the US is not an official member of the International Criminal Court, it can nonetheless promote international justice through strengthening its unofficial ties to the...

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JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Elmendorf writing the seventh installment of the column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that recent statistical findings may contribute to courts declaring Section 5 of the Voting...

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JURIST Guest Columnist Toni Locy of Washington & Lee University says that the erroneous news reports about the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act were the result of a desire for speed over quality in...

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JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt's recent judgment disbanding the People's Assembly may result in a power imbalance between the three branches that could be...

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JURIST Guest Columnist Roy Gutterman of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University says that the Supreme Court's recent decision in FCC v. Fox still leaves broadcasters in doubt about what constitutes indecency...Curse words and nudity, even...

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JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear appeals from detainees at Guantanamo Bay represents a significant step away from the rights secured for them in Boumediene...

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JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that despite recent legislative efforts to prevent the enforcement of international law, state governments are obligated to do so by the US Constitution...Some states and members of...

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JURIST Guest Columnist Kenneth Gallant of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law says that the sentencing of Charles Taylor should have included the provision of reparations for his victims, and that the prosecution...

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