JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's "establishment" of generals, intelligence chiefs, and top bureaucrats may yet preserve its longtime hold on power by effectively playing off restored Supreme Court judges against its...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Joseph, counsel for a group of Canadian law students who recently filed human rights complaints against the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's for its refusal to publish a response to a string of articles allegedly targeting Muslim...

Michael Siem : "In applying the US Supreme Court's holding in Baze v. Rees , Judge Martin found the Georgia Lethal Injection Procedures constitutional despite the Procedures' failure to provide the safeguards required by...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury says that the recent war crimes acquittal of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army leader Ramush Haradinaj before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - a ruling now under prosecution...

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "The Dubai deliberations are over. In a Friday press conference, Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) announced that a Resolution restoring Pakistan's ousted judges shall be tabled before the National Assembly on May...

Deborah Colson : " 'America tells the whole world that it has freedom and justice. I do not see that...You do not give us the least bit of humanity…Give me a just court…Try me with a...

Aleksandar Momirov : "If the recent acquittal of Ramush Haradinaj by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had all the characteristics of a judicial earthquake, then it is only...

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "In Pakistan's February 18 elections, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), i.e. the PML (N), emerged as the two major parties in parliament respectively. On March 09...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently disclosed US Department of Justice letters to US Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-OR) on detainee interrogations reflect a misleading and erroneous understanding of...

Sahr MuhammedAlly : "While pre-trial motions continue at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at other end of the globe in Afghanistan more than 60 former Guantánamo and Bagram detainees have been convicted based on...