David L. McColgin : "Arizona v. Gant is one of the most significant pro-Fourth Amendment decisions in decades. Overturning the settled law in federal...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards of Louisiana State University Law Center says that in the midst of current concerns about the spread of the H1N1 virus (popularly known as "swine flu"), passing more and stricter public health laws will neither...
Melanie Sloan : "President Obama's March 20th memorandum aimed at "Ensuring Transparency of Registered Lobbyist Communications," will not achieve its intended purpose and is an ill-advised restriction on speech.The memo prohibits registered...
Darryl Thibault : "The controversy over what to do about interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush Administration is not likely to go away soon. Nor will it be easy to know who...
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that if we learn nothing else from recent disclosures about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism detainees, we must come to...
Christopher Holton : "The imposition of Sharia in Somalia will not bring about stability, unless of course by stability one means the kind of "stability" that came about when the...
Kyu Ho Youm : "A Korean judge's acquittal of the blogger Park Dae-sung (aka "Minerva") in Seoul is a welcome development in freedom of speech and the press...
Awzar Thi : "At a meeting of lawyers and jurists in Hong Kong this week a participant from Thailand identified the key issue for her country's legal system as political control of the judiciary....
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that far from providing real legal cover for CIA harsh interrogations, the newly disclosed second Bybee memo is a "smoking gun" providing further evidence of serial criminality...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the President's constitutional duty to "take...
