Marina Ottaway : "The new election law approved by the Iraqi parliament on November 8 has both positive and negative features. On the positive side, it will allow the voting to take...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse College of Law and Guest Columnist Leila Sadat of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law say that after the failure of American legislative and diplomatic initiatives opposing the International Criminal...

Elizabeth Hill : "Arizona is beginning to embrace the electronic world in which we conduct our public business. On October 29, 2009, in Lake v. City of Phoenix , the Arizona Supreme Court held that...

David Cortman : "Over the last several years, the government has increasingly restricted pro-life speech, particularly when it occurs on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. These restrictions are, at best, highly suspect under the First...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants and the first officer to publicly criticize the Combatant Status Review Tribunals at Guantanamo,...

Stephan Kinsella : "A recent lawsuit filed by Nokia against Apple alleges that the iPhone infringes 10 of Nokia's patents. Nokia is probably "seeking between $200 and $400 million in damages...

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh...Kristine Long...

Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq...As an Iraqi lawyer and US law student, I often check some of the Iraqi websites meant to inform people about...

Todd Carpenter : "Last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued a ruling overturning a lower court on whether file metadata must be turned over in a public records request. The ruling essentially...

JURIST Guest Columnists Laurie Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic and Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law say that the most glaring failure of the controversial Goldstone Commission Report on the Gaza conflict...