Brian Davis : "This was the best settlement that we could get in such a politically charged atmosphere. The state...

William Perry Pendley : "Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) has agreed to represent Hazleton, Pennsylvania to defend its efforts to reduce the impact on the community from the presence of illegal immigrants....

Nicolas Eyle : "Nearly three decades after California cracked down on rising crime rates with tougher sentencing laws, Californians are beginning to realize the downside of what many experts say has been one of the most poorly planned...

Tara Magner : "The Secure Fence Act has generated a good deal of controversy this election season. First, its price tag is unknown, but is estimated to fall between $2 billion and $9 billion. Second,...

Jack Martin : "At this point, the border fencing law signed by President Bush Thursday is largely symbolic, although important. The legislation sends the message abroad that we intend to defend our...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael A. Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center says that the Secure Fence Act signed into law by President Bush and authorizing the construction of a 700-mile barrier along part of the US border with...

Kristin Jones : "Journalist Yang Xiaoqing's imprisonment caught the attention of ordinary people in China who recognized it as the case of a man who had taken on powerful officials in his home...

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the 24-year prison sentence handed down for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling leaves us all disappointed, not necessarily in the sentence, but in the corporate conduct...

JURIST Guest Columnist and former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor Henry King, Jr., now at Case Western Law School, and JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of...

Jonathan Hafetz : "On October 19, 2006, the district court (Lamberth, J.) dismissed the habeas petition of Mohammed Munaf, the American citizen detained in Iraq by the United States and sentenced to death...