JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and the EU Jean Monnet Professor in Law at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, Lebanon, says that Iraq's constitutional response to pluralism may yet make it an example to the...

Daniel T. Griswold : "The 700-mile, $1.2-billion wall along the U.S.-Mexican border that Congress authorized before leaving town will not stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the United States. It...

His Excellency Nabi Sensoy, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey : "During the First World War the Ottoman government was fighting for survival against the Entente powers. A situation of extreme danger existed as a result of...

Suliman Giddo : "The tragic war and atrocities committed against the defenseless civilians in Darfur have been escalating since the partial agreement (Darfur Peace Agreement) was signed in May 2006. The downside of the...

Ben Davis : "Lawyers for Jose Padilla recently (October 4) filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida a Motion to Dismiss for Outrageous Government Conduct . The motion recites,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of ANU College of Law, Australian National University, says that while passage of the new Military Commissions Act in the United States presents new challenges for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, it also creates an...

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the frenzy over the Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal overlooks not only much that is positive about the company's record, but also the dubious legal advice that...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says the new Military Commissions Act reflects a clear and much-needed Congressional commitment to the war...

Ali Khan : "The world will mourn today's brutal murder of Russian journalist and human rights advocate Anna Politkovaskay in Moscow. In writing my book, A Theory of International Terrorism (2006), I relied on Anna Politkovaskaya's reports about the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kermit Roosevelt of the University of Pennsylvania Law School says that the question of whether the US government can seize aliens and put them beyond the reach of law goes to the heart of who we are...