Dimitrios Ioannidis : "On December 6, 2008, a member of the elite Greek police forces shot and killed 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos in the Exarchia section...

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Macchiarola, an adjunct professor at CUNY Law School and Seton Hall University School of Law, says that the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent complaint against Countrywide Financial offers several lessons for those who would repair our...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the closest precedent to the Israeli position on the Gaza war is justification, an international law doctrine that has been a dead letter since the end of...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that a reconstituted military commission at Guantanamo Bay set up to only prosecute aliens would necessarily violate bilateral treaties, create a "denial of justice" for aliens under...

Robert Amsterdam : "This summer, a second trial is being carried out by the Russian government against Mikhail Khodorkovsky - once Russia's most successful oil executive and opposition financier. As may be expected, the good news continues...

JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of Australian National University College of Law says that until the United States is prepared to acknowledge that it has a continuing responsibility for some of the Guantanamo detainees once they have been released and...

Jim Arkedis : "With the secretive conviction of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee this week to twelve years' hard labor in a North Korean camp, you might be surprised to learn that...

Mehmet Tohti : "Kory Teneycke, spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told the Associated Free Press that "Canada is not looking to take any detainees from Guantánamo...In the case of the Uighurs and other Guantanamo...

JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict involving Ethiopia...

Ana Nikodijevic, visiting scholar from the School of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, comments on the ongoing development of human rights law in Serbia...Although the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s are a distant memory for much of the world, they...