Carrie L. Davis : "It's been an eventful week for Ohio voters. Absentee voting began on Tuesday, September 30th. The deadline for registration is Monday, October 6th. And during this one week, courts across the state...

Rob Boston : "Several of the pastors who took part in the so-called "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" have been arguing that they have a free speech and freedom of religion right...

Awzar Thi : "Whether the release of some nine thousand prisoners from Burma's jails last week was an act of self-described goodwill or a strategic manoeuvre by a government preparing the latest phase in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Deborah Brake of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that important choices about our constitutional structure and the relationship between statutory and constitutional rights are at stake in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, one of...

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the new Iraqi provincial elections law's creation of a commission to determine the appropriate power-sharing arrangement for the northern Kirkuk region may actually hinder...

Baseer Naweed : "The lawyer's movement for the restoration of judges and the independence of the judiciary has continued in spite the Pakistani government's illegal and unconstitutional handling of the issue of...

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that if Vice President Dick Cheney is permitted to avoid the requirements of the Presidential Records Act, the door is left open for a future...

Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala : "In August 2008 the Public Prosecutor's Office in Poland started an investigation on the existence of secret CIA detention facilities in Poland. It happened three years after the revealing information...

Corlett Letlojane : "First and foremost, many people are saddened by the unceremonious departure of the President of South Africa, when his term of office is only ending in April 2008. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond...

Chris W. Cox : "While a recent District proposal - passed only under the threat of congressional action - does make a few positive changes to its gun laws, it is still...