Cara Horowitz : "Care about the National Environmental Policy Act? Then read on. Early in January, in a case challenging naval mid-frequency sonar training exercises off the coast of southern California, environmentalists (including my organization,...
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Sharon Bradford Franklin : "The State Secrets Protection Act (S. 2533), introduced this week by Senators Kennedy and Specter, would bring much needed reform to the state secrets privilege. The doctrine has been problematic since it...
Amrit Singh : ""Ours is a government of laws." "No one is above the law: not the executive, not the Congress, and not the judiciary." With these words, on September 15, 2004, a federal judge...
Charles Stimson : "The Congress should provide appropriate retroactive liability protection for telecommunication companies alleged to have assisted the government since September 11th. Such protection or "immunity" is necessary...
Paul Craig Roberts : "The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing money laundering charges, says it is increasingly clear that...
Wendy E. Parmet : "The spread of H5N1, a new, deadly strain of avian influenza, has raised fears of a potential human pandemic. While the virus is not now easily transmissible to humans,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says despite a recent conclusion of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials are immune from torture-related...
Farzana Hassan and Zeynep Baysal : "The recent victory of the newly elected Islamic party in secular Turkey has spawned a reversal to traditional Islamic precept and practice in the country. This contention...
Alex Neve : "Over the past week there has been reason to both commend and chastise Canada for the approach it takes to assessing where torture is likely to occur. In the midst of court action...
