JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law says that Congress should weigh the advantages and risks of secrecy carefully as it considers the new FOIA exemption that the Obama administration has proposed in the wake...
Faculty Commentary
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Westley of the Tulane University Law School says that a recent Ninth Circuit decision upholding the Washington state's cut to a food aid program for legal immigrants is a prime example of how constitutional formalism justifies...
JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Iraq's handling of the violence perpetrated against an unpopular group of people may ultimately determine the type of state Iraq will evolve into over the...
JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that there is no true legal distinction between liberators and occupiers, and that because it does not look like there will be a treaty...
JURIST Guest Columnist Stan Goldman of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, says federal law already authorizes states to criminally prosecute perpetrators of genocidal crimes, and that Turkish annoyance is not a legitimate basis to invalidate a civil remedy against those...
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael A. Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center says that recent state immigration laws restricting college access for undocumented immigrants are unnecessary and contradict deeply rooted principles of US law...Immigration has always been a complex...
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Sriram of the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, School of Law says that the ICJ should order Senegal to extradite former Chadian president Hissène Habré to Belgium to face prosecution for war...
JURIST Guest Columnist Julie Nice of the University of San Francisco School of Law says that the ruling in Golinski continues the momentum of recent decisions rejecting defenses that deny the designation and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples and...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Loewenstein of the University of Colorado Law School says that while the SEC clearly has the authority to require reporting companies to disclose information regarding their political expenditures, a better course of action may be to...
JURIST Guest Columnist Diana Ginn of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University says that a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada affirms the nation's multicultural heritage at the expense of its promise of religious freedom, and...
