Ali Khan : "The suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry provides a historic constitutional opportunity for the Pakistan Supreme Court to assert judicial independence. The preamble to the Constitution conceives Pakistan's legal order as a...
Professional Commentary
Ali Khan : "The Pakistan Supreme Court has asked the government lawyers to disclose the procedure under which the President has sent the reference against the Chief Justice to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The Court...
Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr. : "Lawyers and law students, civilian and military, need to pause and seriously consider both the court-martial and verdict in the case of Navy JAG, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz. My comments are...
Ben Davis : "I recognize that we are in a moment in which we are desperately looking for (present or former) legal heroes in Justice, but while the Ashcroft hospital bed story makes great cinema...
Jack Martin : "The White House and Congress understand that the American public is concerned about the fast-growing concentration of illegal residents in our communities, schools and worksites. But there are two...
Ali Khan : "A revolution is brewing in Turkey. Turkish generals do not believe that Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is sufficiently secular to become the next President of the Turkish Republic. The un-amendable provisions of the...
Giovanni Di Stefano : "On the 17th March 2007 I wrote to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, seeking leave to prosecute in the criminal courts in accordance with the Geneva Conventions...
Ben Davis : "Taking together the report of the Justice Department filing to reduce access of lawyers to GITMO detainee clients, the medical establishment's approach to those detainees, and snippets of George Tenet's interview on...
David Nicholl : "The legal black-hole of Guantanamo is well recognised, however it is less well realised how the ongoing breaches of medical ethics in Guantanamo are damaging...
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...