JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf - the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" - to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the...

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that last week's executive privilege ruling by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shows that Congress has the stronger argument in its fight for White House...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that new revelations about top US lawmakers' encouragement and support of state-sponsored torture in the years immediately following 9/11 make them complicit in acts many would...

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that especially in the context of its troubled pursuit of Ugandan rebels, the International Criminal Court in The Hague might take a leaf from the book...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says official US calls for "clarifying" the Geneva Conventions are part of a ploy to limit their application and enable prisoners to be treated outside the law...

JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Sunni-Shi'i divide in the Iraqi parliament is only one split complicating the passage of controversial legislation in the troubled state... Conventional wisdom seems...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that Pakistan is enduring a series of misfortunes under General Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule which will be remembered by its people... Mr....

JURIST Guest Columnist Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja (Lahore High Court, ret.) and his colleagues at the Lahore University of Management Sciences Department of Law and Policy in Lahore, Pakistan, call on legal colleagues worldwide to raise their voices against the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the government's use of plainclothes thugs to brutally suppress dissent and protest in the present "emergency" makes it clear that...