Kent Russell : "In McDaniel v. Brown, a habeas petitioner unsuccessfully sought to vacate his conviction on the basis of admittedly flawed DNA evidence which grossly overstated the chances that the defendant was the person guilty of...
Professional Commentary
Beth Schwanke : "Nyi Nyi Aung is a Burmese-born American democracy activist who was arrested at the Rangoon, Burma airport on September 3, 2009. Nyi Nyi was attempting to visit his mother, also an imprisoned democracy activist,...
David R. Irvine and Virginia E. Sloan : "In the aftermath of the attempted Christmas Day bombing, some want to shift the discussion from the best way to close Guantanamo - an objective first announced by President Bush -...
Ilan Pappe : "The building of the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank in 2001 and before that the construction of the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel in 1994, were...
Thomas Ching-peng Peng : "On September 11, 2009, Taiwan's ex-President Chen Shui-bian was sentenced to life in prison and fined NT $200 million on charges of embezzlement, taking bribes, and money laundering,...
Jim Hanson : "As reported here: A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's ability to conduct "targeted killings" in the case...
Zarko Markovic : "When Croatia filed its genocide suit against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, the political implications of that move might have seemed much easier to predict than its legal consequences. With...
Lyric Thompson : "Last week Sudan celebrated an ironic anniversary. In name only, it was the fifth anniversary of peace - specifically, the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA), the official armistice signed to end one of...
Sara Perle and Samara Fox : "The 22-year-old HIV/AIDS ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive individuals who are not US citizens ended on January 4,...
Danilo Reyes : "The declaration of Proclamation 1959, placing a large part of Maguindanao province, in the southern Philippines, under a state of martial law was devoid of a constitutional basis. Thus, legal action taken...
