JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that although a president should naturally be careful to avoid demonstrating disrespect for the Supreme Court, the remarks President Obama recently made about the Court's decision...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says President Obama's inability to close the lawful Guantanamo prison is actually good news, but so...

John Washburn and Matthew Heaphy : "According to the JURIST report about Ambassador Stephen Rapp's January 28 speech at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, he made it clear...

Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves : "The comments by US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp yesterday are a welcome confirmation of the concerns held by many Americans regarding the potential for overreach by the International...

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture hosted by the Center for International Legal Education on "The Role of the US in International Criminal Justice," presented by Stephen Rapp, the US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues...While I listened to...

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston say that despite his campaign promises, it seems that President Obama has made the political calculation that anything other than the indefinite detention of 49 current...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Williams, clinical assistant professor at Catholic University of America School of Law and a practicing attorney in Washington, D.C. says that the debate over Ben Bernanke's potential reappointment as Chairman of the Federal Reserve is illustrative...

James Cockayne : "Vice-President Joe Biden's announcement in Iraq that the US government will appeal the recent dismissal of federal criminal charges against five Blackwater private security contractors was a diplomatic necessity. It was designed to...

Homer Moyer : "This week's highly publicized arrest of 22 corporate executives for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is newsworthy and in some respects unprecedented, but otherwise confirms FCPA enforcement trends that have...

Kent Russell : "In McDaniel v. Brown, a habeas petitioner unsuccessfully sought to vacate his conviction on the basis of admittedly flawed DNA evidence which grossly overstated the chances that the defendant was the person guilty of...