JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says official US calls for "clarifying" the Geneva Conventions are part of a ploy to limit their application and enable prisoners to be treated outside the law...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Sunni-Shi'i divide in the Iraqi parliament is only one split complicating the passage of controversial legislation in the troubled state... Conventional wisdom seems...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that Pakistan is enduring a series of misfortunes under General Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule which will be remembered by its people... Mr....
JURIST Guest Columnist Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja (Lahore High Court, ret.) and his colleagues at the Lahore University of Management Sciences Department of Law and Policy in Lahore, Pakistan, call on legal colleagues worldwide to raise their voices against the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the government's use of plainclothes thugs to brutally suppress dissent and protest in the present "emergency" makes it clear that...
JURIST Guest Columnist Shubhankar Dam of the Singapore Management University School of Law says that in pressing Pakistan's Supreme Court in the direction of greater activism, Pakistan's lawyers embraced a problematic strategy that unintentionally helped to provoke General Pervez Musharraf's...
JURIST Guest Columnist Byron L. Warnken of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that the US State Department's reported grant of "immunity" to Blackwater security guards making sworn statements concerning the killings of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad...
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the play of General Pervez Musharraf's newly-appointed Supreme Court overturning the rulings of the constitutional Supreme Court led...
JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law, in Lahore, Pakistan, says that President Pervez Musharraf's continued leadership of Pakistan in an ostensibly civilian capacity while still Army Chief reflects an unresolved but...
