Silpa Swarnapuri, Pitt Law '12, attended the Second Annual Gay Pride Parade held in her home country of India...On the eve of New Jersey putting the issue of same-sex marriage to popular vote, I recalled India's Second Annual Gay Pride...

Sara Perle and Samara Fox : "The 22-year-old HIV/AIDS ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive individuals who are not US citizens ended on January 4,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic says that while the challenges posed by "new wars" are admittedly vast, we should not let those define us and our values. Rather, she suggests, we should use...

Danilo Reyes : "The declaration of Proclamation 1959, placing a large part of Maguindanao province, in the southern Philippines, under a state of martial law was devoid of a constitutional basis. Thus, legal action taken...

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that in order for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to function properly, the Senate must confirm Judge Denny Chin as soon as...

Victoria Neilson : "On Monday, with relatively little fanfare, the US closed a chapter on an era of discrimination and intolerance. Since 1987, any non-citizen seeking to enter the US was prohibited from doing so if he...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that in the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a US airliner bound for Detroit, we must recognize that religious extremism poses an...

Sarah Cook : "When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and...

William W. Keller : "International travelers are being subjected to higher levels of security screening in the wake of last week's attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Uniformed guards carrying automatic weapons could be seen...

Gino Raymond : "For most commentators in France, the decision by French state prosecutors that former president Jacques Chirac had no case to answer regarding his alleged financial improprieties during his time...