Gabor Rona : "Last Friday, the Obama administration for the first time articulated in court its vision of authority to detain persons who are now being held at Guantanamo. The government's brief in the In...

Daniel Schuman : "On March 11, 2009, President Obama issued his first presidential signing statement - a formal expression of his views regarding legislation that he has just signed into law - identifying...

Angela Wu : "The Supreme Court recently overturned Board of Immigration Appeals and Fifth Circuit rulings in Negusie v. Holder and found that victims of persecution who are forced...

Jesse Reynolds : "President Obama's recent removal of his predecessor's stem cell policy is a welcome development. The Bush administration's restriction on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research was outdated and...

Rep. Jennifer Coffey and Evan F. Nappen : "It's said that God created man and woman, but it took Sam Colt to make them equal. Domestic violence is deplorable. Abusing any...

Paula Lucas : "Pull out your cup, fill it full of whatever morning sip of activation you need and let's talk. The recent comments made by Attorney General Holder were rough - well intentioned and...

Chibli Mallat : "Yesterday we encountered a strange moment of serendipity. Dr. Lateef Rashid, invited those of us working on the Global Justice Project: Iraq to dinner...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers' movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan's lawyers and civil society by...

William Perry Pendley : "Mountain States Legal Foundation welcomes the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Ysursa v. Pocatello Education Association issued February 24, 2009. MSLF had filed...

JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, studied for a year in Singapore...In the Western media, the tiny island nation of Singapore is typecast as conservative. In January, a man and woman attracted the attention of the international news media...