Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, writes from Brussels about the European Union elections...It would have been easy to forget entirely about June's elections for the European Parliament if one ignored the election posters plastering European cities, portraying diverse faces of...
Student Commentary
Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LL.M. '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq...This summer, I returned to Iraq to intern with the Global Justice Project: Iraq, which is run by the University of...
Ana Nikodijevic, visiting scholar from the School of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, comments on the ongoing development of human rights law in Serbia...Although the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s are a distant memory for much of the world, they...
Guest commentator Vicheka Lay,* a legal consultant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reflects on Cambodia's changing legal market...Cambodian legal practitioners face many new challenges brought on by the nation's increased participation in regional and global trade, as well as the influx...
Wendy Doernberg, Pitt Law '11, studied Israeli law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem for 6 months...Unlike the United States, Israel has yet to adopt a formal written constitution. Even some of the laws which form...
JURIST Dateline Editor Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, lived in the Philippines with her family for 5 years...Filipino women currently face a reproductive health care battle for the right to obtain contraception. In 2008, a group of legislators drafted House...
JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, studied for a year in Singapore...In the Western media, the tiny island nation of Singapore is typecast as conservative. In January, a man and woman attracted the attention of the international news media...
Guest commentator Vicheka Lay, a legal consultant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reflects on the Khmer Rouge trials...In February, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) began the trial of one of the Khmer Rouge's former leaders, Kaing Guek...
Guest commentator Mike McNerney, Washington College of Law American University JD '09, is a former US Air Force officer who recently visited the US base at Guantanamo Bay...European Union (EU) nations have been intensely debating whether to accept convicted and...
Guest commentator Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LL.M. '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her native Iraq...While living in Iraq, my husband Haider Hamoudi and I began working for the Iraqi Jessup moot court team. We instructed...