JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and serve neither our...
Malcolm Nance : "On Friday the Department of Defense released news of a revision to the 2005 DoD directive regarding the interrogation of prisoners by a wide range of non-DoD agencies and...
Bennett H. Klein : "The Kerrigan decision is significant as being the third judicial opinion in the country to rule that the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage violates state constitutional...
Joel Reynolds : "In early October, NRDC argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that executive agencies cannot trump the factual findings of federal district courts and that the district court in our case...
Commander Suzanne Lachelier : "The ruling against the defense motion for resources highlights, once again, the obstacles defense counsel face in assisting their clients, whether as full-fledged or as stand-by counsel. It...
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that when they go to the polls in November, American voters should carefully consider the candidates' positions and likely impact on the federal courts as the...
Steven Gieseler and Reed Hopper : "With this case, the U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to restore a semblance of balance to environmental law. For decades, environmental laws and regulations - in particular the Endangered Species...
Anthony S. Barkow : "The fair administration of criminal justice requires prosecutors to exercise their power and discretion to do justice and defense lawyers who are zealous and effective. I was in Guantanamo Bay late last...
JURIST Contributing Editor Douglas Branson, holder of the the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, offers a 50-year perspective on the structural roots of the current financial crisis in the United...
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the newly-promulgated guides for FBI domestic operations taking effect in December are in fact expansive, not delimiting, and seem to permit all kinds of encroachments on our...