Aubrey Sarvis : "The opposition by more than 100 retired flag officers to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) law is another indication of growing nationwide support to replace DADT with a nondiscrimination law that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that creation of a special US domestic court to try terrorism suspects need not be an exercise in "rights denial" but can in fact be a...

Dr. Almerindo Ojeda : "The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) recently posted an analysis of miltary and diplomatic testimonies showing that the...

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the American concession in the supposedly final version of the Status of Forces Agreement governing US troops in Iraq that would put US soldiers...

Victor Comras : "The process used to designate, and freeze the assets of, terrorists and those providing material support for terrorism, has come under serious judicial challenge here and abroad. The European Court of Justice recently...

Joanne Mariner : "In their sobering report, Guantanamo and Its Aftermath , researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - working in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights - have documented...

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that in the face of the American electorate's desire for "change" and the need to build some measure of bipartisan consensus after a divisive campaign season,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...

Maiko Tagusari : "In its Concluding Observations, the UN Human Rights Committee made it clear that Japan is going against the requirements under the Covenant and is strongly required to end...

JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home...