Joseph Morales : "On his remarks congratulating newly appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, President Obama explained that her confirmation was incredibly important for our Nation because it has sent the message...
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Christopher Boucek : "Early this week Human Rights Watch released a new report on internal security in Saudi Arabia. The report is very fair and makes many good points, especially...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Archbishop Agostino Marchetto of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People says in light of recent Italian legislation on immigrants that while states have the right to control their borders,...
Awzar Thi : "The verdict handed down against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her co-accused in Burma this week surprised no one. The trial was throughout political, not legal in character. The only...
David Satter : "The proposed law allowing Russian troops to intervene beyond Russia's borders is meant merely to provide legal cover for possible future Russian aggression. The law, which presumably will be adopted, declares as "legal" what...
JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that despite the potential political cost to President Obama of investigating the torture memos released by the former Bush administration, failure to act on the memos...
Christina Hill : "It has been reported that local communities in the Indonesian province of West Papua have filed a $30 billion lawsuit against the local subsidiary of US mining company Freeport-McRoRan Copper & Gold -...
Sean Turnell : "The conviction and sentencing of democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, on absurd charges in a farcical 'trial' has rightly outraged the world. The sentence, of an 18 month extension to her (already manifestly...
JURIST Guest Columnist Robbie Sabel of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel, says that despite its partisan nature, a report issued by Israel's government on the legal and factual underpinnings of the December-January Gaza offensive is a...
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor M. Hansen and Lawrence M. Friedman of New England School of Law say that while there may be reasons not to try terror suspects in civilian courts in the United States, the problem created by the...
