Kyu Ho Youm : "A Korean judge's acquittal of the blogger Park Dae-sung (aka "Minerva") in Seoul is a welcome development in freedom of speech and the press...
Awzar Thi : "At a meeting of lawyers and jurists in Hong Kong this week a participant from Thailand identified the key issue for her country's legal system as political control of the judiciary....
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the President's constitutional duty to "take...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that far from providing real legal cover for CIA harsh interrogations, the newly disclosed second Bybee memo is a "smoking gun" providing further evidence of serial criminality...
Patrick J. Michaels : "When the US Environmental Protection Agency determined that carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases "endanger public health and welfare," they virtually guaranteed that...
Kenneth P. Green : "The EPA's issuance of an endangerment finding for the greenhouse gases was inevitable, given the 2007 decision of the Supreme Court in Mass. v. EPA , and the stated intention of...
Baseer Naveed : "The government of Pakistan has surrendered before the Islamic militants and the Taliban by entering into an unconstitutional agreement with the Islamic militants operating in the country. On April 13, 2009, Pakistan's...
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...
Dr. Gentian Zyberi : "Piracy is not a new phenomenon. It has existed for probably as long as sailing itself. While it was largely believed...
Ayami Toda : "The Tokyo District Court rejected the teachers' demands simply on the ground that as public officers, they should obey the order which was given regarding their official duties, even while it said that...