JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory S. Gordon of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law discusses the ICTY's acquittal of Vojislav Šešelj and the serious set-back it could represent for the development of international criminal law ... On March...

JURIST Guest Columnist Neil Sammonds, a Syria Researcher at Amnesty International, discusses the upcoming negotiations and possible solutions regarding the violence in Syria... The negotiations set to recommence in Geneva on April 11, 2016 and the recent reduction of hostilities...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dwight Newman of the University of Saskatchewan discusses what is happening with recent leave decisions related to Indigenous rights and Canadian energy regulation.... The Supreme Court of Canada's decision to grant leave to appeal in the Clyde...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kaimipono Wenger of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the rise of anti-LGBT bills in a number of conservative states and opposite reactions to these bills and the fundamental question: do LGBT rights create burdens on religion,...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey F. Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law discusses the assertion that waterboarding is torture...With the 2016 campaign for president heating up, many old issues are being revisited to include the false contention that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jocelyn Simonson of Brooklyn Law School discusses the consent decree between Ferguson, Missouri, and the Department of Justice...Last week, the City of Ferguson, Missouri, entered into a consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) under...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sari Bashi of Human Rights Watch discusses the flaws of Israeli judicial review in the context of Mohammed al-Qeeq's hunger strike... After 93 days of refusing food, an emaciated Palestinian journalist named Mohammed al-Qeeq resumed eating on...

JURIST Guest Columnists David Frakt discusses President Obama's recent Supreme Court nomination...Yesterday, President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to serve on the US Supreme Court. Within minutes, the Republicans in the Senate confirmed, as they had previously made clear, that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Barry A. Feinstein of Netanya Academic College School of Law discusses the recent seizure of US naval ships and personnel by Iran... For more than a year and two months, Iranians held hostage at any given...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Sandra Mantu of Radboud University discusses France's upcoming vote on a bill that would grant the legislator authority to revoke citizenship of natural born citizens...On February 10, 2016, the French National Assembly adopted a bill—Constitutional Law...