JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights' challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege in a motion to dismiss the...
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Geoffrey S. Corn : "Media attention is once again focusing on the laws of war. Recent reports indicate that a criminal investigation is underway to determine whether members of a U.S. Marine unit should be prosecuted...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that critical decisions about going to war should be constrained by national and international process that obliges empowering authorities to ask serious questions and requires leaders to...
Geoffrey Corn, South Texas College of Law: "On May 9th, the Department of Defense published a revised version of Department of Defense Directive 5100.77, "The Department of Defense Law of War Program." This Directive is the foundation for all law...
Michael J. Kelly : "From the perspective of the outside world, Gen. Michael Hayden's decision to wear his military uniform makes it appear that the military is taking over the CIA. And from their perspective, about...
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the development of US detainee policy at Guantanamo demonstrates what can happen when government lawyers forget that their duty is not to a governmental official or a...
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the UK government's push to limit the application of the Human Rights Act in matters of public safety...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ron Dudai of the SOAS School of Law at the University of London (UK) says that the dubious US response to 9/11 has given Israel an excuse to engage in its own questionable practices, as reflected by...
Michael J. Kelly : "With Porter Goss's resignation as CIA director, President Bush is presented with an opportunity to make real and lasting changes to a broken intelligence system. The cosmetic changes of two years ago...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the Zacarias Moussaoui verdict demonstrates that the best way to promote national security and democracy in the...
