Richard Huffman : "Christian Klar, leader of the notorious Red Army Faction, the leftist terrorist group that waged war on Germany from 1970 through the early 1990s, was released from prison. Klar...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the Obama...

Ariel Cohen : "The Russian Constitution proclaims a presidential republic within a multi-party system, with president as a "guarantor" of the Constituion. However, checks and balances in Russia were underdeveloped since the collapse of communism...

Aubrey Sarvis : "The opposition by more than 100 retired flag officers to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) law is another indication of growing nationwide support to replace DADT with a nondiscrimination law that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that creation of a special US domestic court to try terrorism suspects need not be an exercise in "rights denial" but can in fact be a...

Dr. Almerindo Ojeda : "The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) recently posted an analysis of miltary and diplomatic testimonies showing that the...

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the American concession in the supposedly final version of the Status of Forces Agreement governing US troops in Iraq that would put US soldiers...

Victor Comras : "The process used to designate, and freeze the assets of, terrorists and those providing material support for terrorism, has come under serious judicial challenge here and abroad. The European Court of Justice recently...

Joanne Mariner : "In their sobering report, Guantanamo and Its Aftermath , researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - working in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights - have documented...

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that in the face of the American electorate's desire for "change" and the need to build some measure of bipartisan consensus after a divisive campaign season,...