JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Adjovi of Arcadia University in Arusha, Tanzania, says that to gain and maintain credibility in the wake of its first judgment, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights should streamline its policy rationale and procedure,...

Tom Parker : "The Obama administration's announcement that it intends to move "War on Terror" detainees not cleared for release to the Thomson Correctional Facility changes very little beyond enabling President...

Kerim Yildiz : "Turkey's Constitutional Court ruling to close the Demokratik Toplum Partisi (Democratic Society Party, DTP) - the first pro-Kurdish party in the Turkish parliament in 14 years — comes at a crucial time...

Lavinia Stan : "On 14 December, the Central Electoral Bureau reinstated 2,000 of the 138,000 invalid votes registered in the second round of the presidential elections that took place a week...

Gregory D. Lee : "The transfer of Kuwaiti National Fouad Al Rabiah to his home country is a further attempt by the Obama administration to reduce the number of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay...

Nikolas Kondylis : "During the last two days several protests took place in Athens in the anniversary of the death of a young boy who was killed last year. Within the...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch says that judging from what she saw at Guantanamo last week, the new system of US military commissions established under the Military Commissions Act of 2009 fails to meet "our...

Joan Bertin : "Cases involving messages on license plates raise a potpourri of questions with important First Amendment implications. The easiest cases are those in which the government itself creates a plate with a religious...

Dawn Koepke : "After months of debate, the legislature approved a watered-down version of the Corrections budget package aimed at addressing the $1.2 billion unallocated cut to the Department of Corrections provided in the...

Roy Speckhardt : "The American Humanist Association (AHA), along with more than 100 other organizations, has joined in a statement opposing the "defamation of religion" resolution before the United Nations that is being promoted by the...