Neil P. Reiff : "Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a significant, yet unsurprising decision in Speechnow.org. v. FEC. In Speechnow.org,...
INFORMED ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
SpeechNow Decision Continues Deregulatory Trend in Campaign Finance Realm
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Prosecuting Terror Suspects in Federal Court: The Right Choice
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Hutaree Militia arrests reflect growth of potentialy violent anti-government groups
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US must give immigration offenders access to counsel and decrease focus on detention
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SpeechNow decision lessens imbalance between wealthy interests and small donors
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Oklahoma Supreme Court rightly rejected law undermining reproductive rights
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Guantanamo detainee’s release highlights failure of enhanced interrogation policy
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LEBANON: Women's Citizenship and Nationality Rights
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Supervising Intelligence: A Checked and Balanced Approach to National Security
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Irish referendum on blasphemy law seeks to remove morality from constitution
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JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the bipartisan Washington DC-based Constitution Project, says that US Attorney General Eric Holder should stand by his decision to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in traditional federal court, rather than in military...
Heidi Beirich : "The arrests this past weekend of nine members of the Hutaree Militia in what federal authorities are describing as a plot to murder a law enforcement officer in Michigan and then...
Azizah al-Hibri and William H. Taft, IV : "Imagine your neighbor had been born and raised in Jamaica. Twenty years ago, he moved to the United States to marry an American woman and...
Stephen M. Hoersting : "In SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission, a unanimous federal court struck down FEC regulations that limited the ability of citizens to join together and speak about politics and candidates. Extending the...
Stephanie Toti : "The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently struck down an omnibus statute, S.B. 1878, that imposed a host of contradictory restrictions on the provisions of reproductive health care in the State....
Daphne Eviatar : "There may be no better example of why so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" are a bad idea than the case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who a judge on Monday ordered released after seven years...
Megan McKee, Pitt Law '12, takes a personal perspective on citizenship and women's rights in Lebanon...Sara Burhan Abdullah's recent JURIST Dateline article on women's rights and citizenship in Iraq reminded me of a similar predicament faced by Lebanese women. In...
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston say that Congress's effort to gain greater oversight of certain intelligence actions through the Intelligence Authorization Acts for Fiscal Year 2010 is a clear example of...
Johanna Higgins : "Minister Ahern has stated in the past, regarding the constitutional provision on blasphemy: "As a republican, my personal position is that Church and State should be separate. But I do not...
