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Commentary NSA Eavesdropping and the Fourth Amendment
NSA Eavesdropping and the Fourth Amendment
JURIST Staff
March 8, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist William Banks of Syracuse University College of Law says that even if legal authority is found for the NSA domestic surveillance program, such spying still violates the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution protecting Americans against unreasonable...

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Commentary No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive Branch and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive Branch and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Staff
March 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

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Commentary No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Staff
March 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

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Commentary Undue Influence? Ideology and Supreme Court Law Clerks
Undue Influence? Ideology and Supreme Court Law Clerks
JURIST Staff
March 3, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Todd Peppers of Roanoke College, author of the forthcoming book Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of Supreme Court Law Clerks (Stanford University Press, 2006) says that although Justice Samuel Alito's recent hiring...

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Commentary Caricatures, Context and Contact: Islam and Modern Europe
Caricatures, Context and Contact: Islam and Modern Europe
JURIST Staff
March 2, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that the worldwide controversy over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is symptomatic of a new type of tribalism...

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Commentary The Iran Nuclear Standoff: Legal Issues
The Iran Nuclear Standoff: Legal Issues
JURIST Staff
March 1, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that now that Iran has been referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, some Council action under Chapter VII...

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Commentary Enron and 'Managing' the Numbers
Enron and 'Managing' the Numbers
JURIST Staff
March 1, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that as we watch witnesses at the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling continue to testify about Enron's earnings management, we should...

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Commentary Presidential Secrecy and the NSA Spying Controversy
Presidential Secrecy and the NSA Spying Controversy
JURIST Staff
February 27, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Heidi Kitrosser of the University of Minnesota School of Law says that White House arguments in defense of the NSA domestic surveillance program are pushing the limits of Presidential secrecy beyond proper constitutional bounds... Two of the...

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Commentary The Iraqi Special Tribunal: One Chance to Get It Right
The Iraqi Special Tribunal: One Chance to Get It Right
JURIST Staff
February 24, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the Iraqi Special Tribunal currently trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity may be losing its one...

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Commentary Bye-Bye BlackBerry? Patent Problems with Patent Litigation
Bye-Bye BlackBerry? Patent Problems with Patent Litigation
JURIST Staff
February 23, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that regardless of the ruling in the wake of the much-anticipated BlackBerry injunction hearing, critical questions remain about the patent litigation process that may yet require...

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