Joe Stork : "President Obama and his team have another opportunity to do the right thing regarding the report of the UN Fact-Finding Commission on the Gaza Conflict...
Professional Commentary
Jessica Montell : "In the recent session of the UN Human Rights Council, the US and Israel - each for their own, somewhat disingenuous reasons - argued that a peace process is incompatible with international scrutiny of war...
Louay Bahry : "The new Supreme Constitutional Court in Qatar, established by Law No. 12 of 2008 was supposed to start functioning on October 1, 2008, but was postponed for "administrative" reasons. On September...
Julian Sanchez : "The administration's new policy on invocation of the state secrets privilege does set a higher transparency standard, but that's largely because their predecessors had to enlist Otto Lidenbrock to get it to the low...
Gino Raymond : "The recommendation that charges against Jacques Chirac be dropped should come as no surprise. In theory, the judge responsible for the final decision, Xavière Simeoni, is not obliged to...
Jo Cartwright : "The Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) interim guidelines on assisted dying following Debbie Purdy's legal victory represent a small but significant breakthrough for greater patient choice, control and protection at the...
Sean Hayes : "As most of us in Korea realize, many "peaceful" protests have too often turned violent at night. In the not so distant past, protests over the importation of US beef led...
Heidi Boghosian : "The police response to protests at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh will be remembered as especially brutal, given the debut of military sonic weapons against civilians. Technology used in Iraq, long range acoustic...
Edward Alden : "Under normal circumstances, China's decision to appeal a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Beijing's restrictions on the import of foreign films, books and music would scarcely have been...
Ben Wizner : "The Department of Justice's new policy on state secrets may turn out to be a small step in the right direction. If it results in fewer - and more nuanced - invocations...
