JURIST Guest Columnist Nicole Huberfeld of the University of Kentucky College of Law says that the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA relied on a strange reading of the law, where the...
Faculty Commentary
JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey Hoffman of the University of Houston Law Center says that the Supreme Court's holding in Arizona v. US serves as a strong reminder of the executive branch's power to create and enforce a coherent, and ideally...
JURIST Guest Columnist Robin West of the Georgetown University Law Center says that Chief Justice Roberts's conviction that the individual mandate is not authorized by the Commerce Clause is evidence of a new, anti-collectivist conception of individual rights that is...
JURIST Guest Columnist Valentina Azarov of the Al-Quds Bards College, Al-Quds University says that Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories violate international law, specifically in regards to the illegal construction of settlements. She also argues that third-party states should seek...
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Simon of the University of Richmond argues that the Supreme Court's health care decision reflects a rights gap in current US constitutional discourse, where certain claims against federal action have the character of rights claims while...
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of the Ave Maria School of Law says that the recent confrontation between a US warship and a foreign vessel in the Strait of Hormuz is the most recent in a history of incidents where...
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Affordable Care Act will have lasting effects not only for the nation's health care system, but also for...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says the theory that self-executing treaties are the only type of international law that is binding on states is based on an incorrect, revisionist account of US legal...
JURIST Guest Columnist Stuart Ford of the John Marshall Law School says that although the International Criminal Court has encountered numerous obstacles during the first ten years of its existence, its reputation will ultimately be decided over a longer period...
JURIST Guest Columnist Linda Tashbook of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Rhode Island's new Homeless Bill of Rights provides an improved set of standards for how states should treat their indigent citizens...Legislatures can't force people to...
