JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Slobogin of Vanderbilt University Law School says that a set of new guidelines for the National Counterrorism Center's use of information contains provisions which are troubling from a privacy standpoint, and should be modified to require...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Szanyi, staff attorney at the Center for Children's Law and Policy, says that the Supreme Court should follow prior precedent and ban the sentence of life without parole for juvenile homicide offenders...This past month, the US...

JURIST Assistant Editor Elizabeth Hand, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, is the chair of the LGBT committee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's National Lawyers Guild. Hand argues that sex workers in the US...

JURIST Guest Columnist Tim Lynch, Director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, says that George Zimmerman's actions are not covered by Florida's Stand Your Ground law and that Zimmerman could have been arrested and charged because...

JURIST Columnist Volha Samasiuk is an LL.M. Candidate from the University of Arkansas School of Law, and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. Here she discusses food import laws in the US and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Martinho Lucas Pires is a LL.M. Candidate at the Católica Global School of Law, a Lisbon-based faculty of the Catholic University of Portugal. In the third entry of a four-part series on the realities and priorities of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ansgar Ohly of the University of Bayreuth says that two recent decisions by the European Court of Human Rights offer clarity on the boundaries of the right to privacy and the freedom of expression under the European...

JURIST Guest Columnist William Maurer, an Executive Director for the Institute for Justice, says that when the government adopts a "sentence first, trial later" mentality and does not allow for judicial review of administrative action, it grievously violates the Due...

JURIST Guest Columnist Rafael Lomenso is a LL.M. Candidate at the Católica Global School of Law, a Lisbon-based faculty of the Catholic University of Portugal. In the second entry of a four-part series on the realities and priorities of Portuguese...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jiamin Chen, Chicago-Kent College of Law Class of 2012, is a LL.M. student specializing in intellectual property and international trade law. She calls for the people of China to transform their perception of intellectual property in order...