William Duncan, Director of the Marriage Law Foundation, argues that whether or not same-sex marriage is a beneficial public policy, the New York legislation sets a bad precedent and is possibly unconstitutional under the state constitution due to violations of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Roy Gutterman of Syracuse University says that the Supreme Court's recent ruling on violent video games, in conjunction with prior First Amendment jurisprudence, maintains necessary constitutional safeguards for speakers and listeners... The beeps and blips of today's...

John Hardin Young, Counsel for Sandler Reiff Young & Lamb, PC, argues that the recent Supreme Court opinion striking down Arizona's campaign finance regulations leaves few options for future campaign finance reform...On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that an Arizona...

David Hudson : The US Supreme Court's violent video games decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association continued the Court's trend of limiting legislative attempts to create new categories of unprotected speech. It rejected the concept...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ashley Savage of Northumbria University Law School in the UK says that in light of recent leaks to the media and through the Internet, there must be more robust protections for whistleblowers and more effective systems for...

Richard Dieter : A federal judge in Florida this week ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury. This ruling...

Sara Rose, Staff Attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, argues that although the recent Third Circuit ruling on student speech was the right one, it did not go far enough in ensuring the constitutional rights of public...

Jennifer Levi : "Recently, the Connecticut Senate passed a bill that adds the phrase "gender identity or expression" to all existing state sex discrimination laws. The Senate's passage followed...

Meenakshi Ganguly : "The video showing summary executions during the final days of Sri Lanka's war in May 2009 provides clear-cut evidence of war crimes. Beyond what is evident in the video, Human Rights...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gabor Rona of Human Rights First says that the recent visit to the US by German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlights a fundamental difference between the US and Europe in the interpretation and application of international law...