JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that the lingering fog of the 9/11 attacks has clouded our perceptions, blurred our legal categories, and perhaps also compromised our judgment... For a month after September 11, 2001, I...
Faculty Commentary
JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Baynes of the St. John's University School of Law says that to remedy racially-stereotyped reporting of events such as the 2005 Katrina disaster, the Federal Communications Commission should implement policies to increase the number of minorities...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that President Bush's acknowledgement that high-level terror detainees have been held in secret CIA prisons should be the beginning of a cleansing process in which leaders...
JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England School of Law say that Congress needs to step in to counter the Bush administration's apparent efforts to limit the ability of uniformed military lawyers to advise on future...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the International Commission of Jurists and former Chief Justice of South Africa, says that although the threat of terrorism is real, five years after the September 11 attacks on the United...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the political prisoners lingering in Haiti's squalid jails are not the byproduct of the policies of incoming President René Préval,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Chen of the University of Minnesota School of Law says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster one year later still challenges us to acknowledge and address America's deep social vulnerability, so exposed in the aftermath of the...
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that as we celebrate the universality of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, we must recognize that the murder, rape, maiming, mutilation, and pillaging of non-combatants worldwide goes on...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that forcing unsuccessful 2004 presidential candidate Ralph Nader to pay after-the-fact for a ballot contest instigated against him in...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that politicians' increasing use of abusive language to describe Islam in the context of the war on terror is symptomatic of multiple problems in Anglo-American democracy and culture......