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Commentary Restoring the Second Amendment in Parker v. Columbia
Restoring the Second Amendment in Parker v. Columbia
April 14, 2007 06:31:00 pm

Alan Gura : "Fear and disinformation have long been the hallmarks of the movement to end private gun ownership. Not surprisingly, the D.C. Circuit's decision in...

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Commentary Firing Gonzales For All the Right Reasons
Firing Gonzales For All the Right Reasons
Jeremiah Lee
April 11, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that amidst the political furor over the role of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the firings of US Attorneys we should also remember his involvement in...

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Commentary David Hicks' Guilty Plea: Another Blow to US Moral Authority
David Hicks' Guilty Plea: Another Blow to US Moral Authority
Jeremiah Lee
April 9, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the overbearing terms imposed on Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in his recent military commission plea agreement are the product of an overly and unfairly coercive system...

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Commentary Vetoed New Mexico HPV vaccine bill could have avoided litigation
Vetoed New Mexico HPV vaccine bill could have avoided litigation
April 6, 2007 01:07:00 pm

Steve Komadina : "I think the bill was good in that it mandated the Health Dept. to develop educational material to send home to parents informing them about the vaccine and...

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Commentary Pelosi on the right path
Pelosi on the right path
JURIST Commentator
April 5, 2007 12:00:00 pm

Ali Khan : "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving on the right path in exploring the possibilities of negotiated solutions to the problems that threaten the peace of the Middle East. Her bold initiative to meet...

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Commentary Supreme Court action sentences Gitmo detainees to another year without habeas review
Supreme Court action sentences Gitmo detainees to another year without habeas review
April 3, 2007 05:49:00 pm

Shane Kadidal : "On April 2, 2007, the US Supreme Court denied cert in our appeal of the D.C. Circuit's decision denying federal court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions of Guantánamo...

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Commentary Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees
Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees
Jeremiah Lee
April 3, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the Supreme Court's failure to marshall enough votes to review the habeas-stripping provisions of the Military Commissions Act at this stage...

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Commentary Safeguarding Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Safeguarding Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Jeremiah Lee
April 2, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that following the removal of Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry concrete constitutional reforms are needed to guarantee the independence...

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Commentary Kosovo: The UN Plans a Human Rights Disaster
Kosovo: The UN Plans a Human Rights Disaster
Jeremiah Lee
March 27, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that creating an independent multi-ethnic state in Kosovo would almost certainly be a human rights disaster for the 200,000 Serbs living there... The United States is on the...

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Commentary Bulgarian medical workers in Libya deserve justice
Bulgarian medical workers in Libya deserve justice
March 22, 2007 10:39:00 am

Her Excellency Ambassador Elena Poptodorova : "The tragedy of the Bulgarian medics in Libya began on 9 February 1999 when the Libyan authorities detained a group of 23 Bulgarian medics working...

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