JURIST Guest Columnist Joseph H. Marren discusses the impeachment of Brazil's President... On August 30 Brazil's Senate voted to convict Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on charges that she used improper accounting to cover-up a growing budget deficit and illegal loans...
JURIST Guest Columnist Henok G. Gabisa of the Bekele Gerba et al International Legal Defense Project discusses the motivation behind Olympic marathoner Feyisa Lilesa's arm-crossed protest at the finish line at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil......
JURIST Guest Columnist Maya Manian of the University of San Francisco School of Law discusses the history of abortion laws, and how Whole Woman's Health has impacted women's constitutional right to access abortion care...As numerous commentators have noted, the Supreme...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brad Abramson discusses the new ABA amendment...At its recent annual convention the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted a resolution amending Rule 8.4 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the code of ethics that governs attorney...
JURIST Guest Columnist Fredrick Vars of the University of Alabama School of Law, proposes a compromise federal approach to the problem of guns and terrorism... Just over two months ago we witnessed the worst mass shooting in US history,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn C. Smith of the California Western School of Law discusses what a four-four Supreme Court split means for the future of President Obama's immigration policy...As a professor of complex constitutional and statutory law issues, I'm not...
JURIST Guest Columnist Albert E. Scherr of University of New Hampshire School of Law discusses Donald Trumps's recent statements...The spectacle of Donald Trump's invitation to the Russian government to either hack Hillary Clinton's e-mail or provide to him the results...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Bruno of the Harvard Law School discusses recent changes to and ongoing limitations of the Freedom of Information Act...A few weeks ago, President Obama signed into law a major amendment of the US Freedom of Information...
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender, addresses prosecutor Michele Hanisee's remarks concerning the death penalty in California... Speaking in favor of Proposition 66, the ballot initiative that seeks to speed up executions in California to Texas-like...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mahmudul Hasan of University of Development Alternative discusses how international environmental law can be influenced by indigenous orders...In the realm of international environmental law, we have seen how various conceptions of international law; ideas about sovereignty and...