Joanne Mariner : "In their sobering report, Guantanamo and Its Aftermath , researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - working in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights - have documented...
Professional Commentary
Maiko Tagusari : "In its Concluding Observations, the UN Human Rights Committee made it clear that Japan is going against the requirements under the Covenant and is strongly required to end...
Jack Reilley : "Proposition 9 passed by 53.5 percent and over five million voters said YES. It was a huge win because Prop 9 was opposed by all major California newspapers, many of the major television...
Stephen Hanlon : "While the American Bar Association (ABA) takes no position on the death penalty per se, it has called on U.S. capital jurisdictions to halt executions until policies...
Richard C. Dieter : "Almost every state in the country guarantees defendants the right to have DNA evidence tested after their trial. Unfortunately for William Osborne, Alaska is not one of those states. That is...
Marc Rotenberg : "When the New York Times first reported in December 2005 that President Bush had undertaken electronic surveillance in the United States of U.S. citizens without court approval, EPIC immediately filed a Freedom of...
Sharon Kelly : "One week before the presidential election, the Guantanamo trials grind slowly on, although this week's trial of Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, a Yemeni accused of being Osama Bin...
Ivan Hoffman : "There is ample precedent for the structure of Google's settlement with the Authors Guild. It certainly reflects emerging technology and, as indicated below, will need to be reflected in modified agreements.For...
Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr.:"For those unfamiliar with military practice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,reading the recent federal District Court decision in Watada v. Head, is probably as...
Farzana Hassan : "The Muslim Canadian Congress, in welcoming the decision of the Constitutional Court of Turkey to disallow the lifting of the ban on hijabs, viewed it as a significant triumph of secularism over repressive Islamist...