Sarah Lazare : "Robin Long's refusal to fight in the illegal and immoral war against Iraq was a courageous act, and it is regretful that soldiers in his position do not have avenues for resisting service...

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), a former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and currently a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that Salim Hamdan's recent...

Michelle Richardson : "Just when you thought domestic spying power grabs had been put to rest for the duration of this Administration, the Justice Department has publicly announced its intent to go after one of the last existing...

Chip Sinton : "The National Youth Rights Association disagrees with the Sixth Circuit's ruling in Barr et al. v. Lafon, et al. NYRA disagrees not because we are Confederate sympathizers nor because we support any hateful...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the nomination of Asif Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to contest Pakistan's next presidential election in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's...

Leslie Harris : "The Department of Justice has properly agreed to a request from Senators Specter and Leahy that it delay release of new Attorney General Guidelines that govern FBI criminal...

Karynn Fish : "Oregon's domestic partnership law has been in effect since February 1, when a district court judge lifted a temporary restraining order that had delayed its implementation. JURIST isn't clear on this point. Last...

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, who formerly led the US delegation in UN talks creating the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is now at Northwestern University School of Law, recalls the original intent behind Article 16 of the Rome Statute...

Bonnie Docherty : "Russia has not only caused civilian casualties with its use of cluster munitions in Georgia, but it has also blatantly disregarded the international decision to ban the weapons. In the process, Russia has demonstrated...

Betsy Apple and Nicolas Burniat : "Efforts by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts (ICC) to obtain an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan, Omar el-Bashir, for charges...