JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the recent actions against U.S. Navy Captain (Capt.) Owen Honors is a regrettable redux of the Las Vegas, NV Tailhook Association scandal of 1991. Still, this incident...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Amanda M. Klasing, of Human Rights Watch says that following the first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, the international community and government of Haiti should allow Haitians to participate more in decision-making and increase accountability...

Sarah Robison, University of Minnesota Law School '12, writes about the possible deleterious impact of the citizen-contractor loophole on asylum applicants... Individuals applying for political asylum in the United States often believe that applying for asylum will alleviate their fear...

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the Hot Shale Plays conference co-hosted by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and Energy and Mineral Law Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He writes about the Pittsburgh City Council's ban on Marcellus Shale drilling......

Slobodan Zecevic : "The Sljivancanin Review Judgement delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (hereinafter ICTY) Appeals Chamber on December 8, 2010 is a significant breakthrough in the ICTY jurisprudence. Indeed, it...

Aaron D. Tax : "Congress and President Clinton created "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) in 1993 as a so-called compromise that has "allowed" lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans to serve our country, so long as...

David O. Stewart : "I spent way too much time following the Thomas Porteous impeachment trial, having defended an impeachment trial in 1989 (Judge Walter Nixon) and having written a book about another (Impeached: The Trial of President...

Christina Fialho, Santa Clara Law '12, is an immigrant rights advocate and co-founder of the Detention Dialogues, a graduate student-led organization affiliated with Detention Watch Network. Christina writes about the detention of non-criminal immigrants in US jails... Behind razor-sharp barbed...

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) of South Texas College of Law, says that past actions of a former Army Colonel recently elected to Congress highlight the need for military leaders to look beyond the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie R. Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic says that defining where the so-called "war on terror" is being fought is an important task, and that while traditional frameworks fail to give adequate guidance, there...