JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict involving Ethiopia...

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...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Asa Hutchinson, former US Congressman (R-AR), DEA director, DHS under secretary for Border and Transportation Security and currently a member of the Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Committee, says that while President Obama's stated intent to...

Kevin Zeese : "The images of torture and abuse of prisoners are vivid. They are an embarrassment to a nation that led the efforts for the Geneva Convention which made torture and other war...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that North Korea's apparent disavowal of the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War does not negate the continued existence at international law of the legal boundary between North...

Hoon Lee : "South Korea is now almost at the end of a 7-day national mourning period for its former (16th) president, Roh Moo Hyun, who had abruptly ended his life by jumping off a...

Audrey Silk : "The DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmation of most of District Court Judge Gladys Kessler's ruling in the case of US v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et. al. [PDF...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Tracy of the National Institute of Military Justice at American University Washington College of Law says President Obama's decision to reconstitute the US military commissions system runs contrary to basic American legal values and revitalizes the...

J.B. Harris : "On May 22, 2009, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in large part one of the most damning verdicts ever rendered against the tobacco industry. US v. Philip...

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that recent passage by Spain's lower house of parliament of a non-binding resolution aimed at limiting the scope of the country's universal jurisdiction may not be...