Richard C. Dieter : "Almost every state in the country guarantees defendants the right to have DNA evidence tested after their trial. Unfortunately for William Osborne, Alaska is not one of those states. That is...
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Marc Rotenberg : "When the New York Times first reported in December 2005 that President Bush had undertaken electronic surveillance in the United States of U.S. citizens without court approval, EPIC immediately filed a Freedom of...
Sharon Kelly : "One week before the presidential election, the Guantanamo trials grind slowly on, although this week's trial of Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, a Yemeni accused of being Osama Bin...
JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, who recently observed the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay for Human Rights Watch, says that the prosecution's argument in the case against Canadian national Omar Khadr...
Ivan Hoffman : "There is ample precedent for the structure of Google's settlement with the Authors Guild. It certainly reflects emerging technology and, as indicated below, will need to be reflected in modified agreements.For...
Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr.:"For those unfamiliar with military practice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,reading the recent federal District Court decision in Watada v. Head, is probably as...
Farzana Hassan : "The Muslim Canadian Congress, in welcoming the decision of the Constitutional Court of Turkey to disallow the lifting of the ban on hijabs, viewed it as a significant triumph of secularism over repressive Islamist...
Moazzam Begg : "Few people outside of western China or the neighboring central Asian states of the former Soviet Union have heard of the Uighurs. I hadn't heard of them either, until I was...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and serve neither our...
Malcolm Nance : "On Friday the Department of Defense released news of a revision to the 2005 DoD directive regarding the interrogation of prisoners by a wide range of non-DoD agencies and...
