JURIST Guest Columnist Silvio Waisbord of George Washington University says the "anti-racism" law recently passed in Bolivia is a result of deep divisions in the country, but that it won't help, and may actually hamper, civil discourse about those issues......

JURIST Guest Columnist Keith J. Bybee of Syracuse University says in order for both state and federal judges to retain legitimacy, it is not enough for them to merely avoid actual improprieties; they must also visibly appear to play the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that despite the recent District Court decisions enjoining the Department of Defense from enforcing or applying "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," there remains a significant body of law allowing...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says despite United Nations Human Rights Council findings that Israel clearly broke international law in its raid of the Gaza Strip Flotilla, the US has yet to condemn the...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saroop Ijaz, an advocate before the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, says that the country's courts should more often limit themselves to issues brought before them, so that the other branches of government and the people...

Robyn Monaco, Rutgers Newark School of Law '11 and Political Science Masters Candidate '12, writes about her experience with Maritime Writs of Attachment in the New York banking industry and the veritable blizzard of filings brought on by a single...

Joe Gonzales, University College London M.A. Human Rights '10, is a current intern with Survival International. He writes on the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve's struggle to secure water rights from the Botswanan government... On July 21 the...

JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England Law Boston say in the wake of the Ninth Circuit's decision in Bynyam v. Jeppesen Dataplan that the time is right for Congress to codify a state secrets privilege...

Saleh Al Amer, Pitt Law '11, recently interned with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Washington, DC. Saleh is the President of the Muslim Law Students Association at the University of Pittsburgh and writes on discrimination against Muslims in Europe...

David Krieger : "In April 2009, President Obama went to Prague and spoke out for a world free of nuclear weapons. "I state clearly and with conviction," he said, "America's commitment to seek the peace and...