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Commentary Burial at Sea: The End of Osama Bin Laden
Burial at Sea: The End of Osama Bin Laden
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 4, 2011 12:07:54 pm

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that the Obama Administration should resist pressure or temptation to release sensational photographs of Osama Bin Laden's corpse taken after the firefight at his compound in Pakistan where...

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Commentary The ICJ Kosovo Independence Opinion: Uncertain Precedent
The ICJ Kosovo Independence Opinion: Uncertain Precedent
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 23, 2010 10:38:47 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that while the recent opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is likely to be an important point...

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Commentary Left Wing Federalism Fells DOMA
Left Wing Federalism Fells DOMA
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 21, 2010 09:46:59 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller of Western New England College School of Law says that the decision of a moderately liberal federal judge that the application of the Defense of Marriage Act in Massachusetts is unconstitutional on federalism grounds is...

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Commentary Rand Paul and the Business of Discrimination
Rand Paul and the Business of Discrimination
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 28, 2010 10:58:48 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Ben Bratman of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul claims he opposes repealing the foundational Civil Rights Act of 1964, his controversial comments on race discrimination leave one...

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Commentary The Bagram Habeas Decision: Bad Law, Bad Policy
The Bagram Habeas Decision: Bad Law, Bad Policy
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 27, 2010 01:49:12 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that the DC Circuit's willingness to provide the US executive branch legal cover for its denial of detainee rights runs counter to proven counterterrorism principles... The...

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Commentary The BP Blowout: Legal Claims and Questions
The BP Blowout: Legal Claims and Questions
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 18, 2010 05:41:48 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the blowout at BP's Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico will lead to a plethora of legal claims... The tragic blowout...

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Commentary The Case for Trying Terrorism Suspects in Federal Court
The Case for Trying Terrorism Suspects in Federal Court
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 10, 2010 04:23:55 pm

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston say that fear and politics notwithstanding, trial in US federal court will be the best option in most, if not all, terrorism cases.... Since President Bush...

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Commentary Public Interest Lawyering: 'Material Support' of Terrorism?
Public Interest Lawyering: 'Material Support' of Terrorism?
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 6, 2010 10:47:08 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says the question of whether the government can criminally prosecute an attorney for representing a client said by the executive to...

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Commentary Arizona's Immigration Law: Constitutional, But…
Arizona's Immigration Law: Constitutional, But…
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 3, 2010 12:33:56 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says Arizona's controversial new immigration law appears to be constitutional, at least on its face, but the state must be scrupulously careful to avoid even the appearance...

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Commentary UK: Assisted Suicide
UK: Assisted Suicide
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2010 03:52:17 pm

Anna Mandel, Boston College '11 currently studying law in London, discusses the impact of recent clarifications to the United Kingdom's Suicide Act of 1961... Assisted suicide has become a controversial and provocative legal topic around the world, particularly in...

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