JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that amidst all the attention focused on security problems likely to be associated with an eventual US withdrawal from Iraq, the legal and practical impact of withdrawal on...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Montgomery, US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2004, says that as the euphoria over the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fades and reality sets in, it's clear that his case poses continuing challenges...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Flatt of the University of Houiston Law Center says the recent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to vacate the EPA's implementation of the Clean Air Interstate Rule reminds us that the statutory mandates of our...

Aaron Zisser : "The first week of the first trial at Guantánamo Bay did not seem, at first glance, particularly extraordinary. True, there were some obvious differences between civilian courts and the military commission [Human...

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while the International Criminal Court and its founding Rome Statute are far from perfect, the operation of Court since the Statute entered into force in...

Frank Kendall : "From July 14 to July 18, I attended several pre-trial motions hearings in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for Salim Hamdan , who is now in his second week of trial before a Military...

Farzana Hassan : "The statistics are alarming. Eight women and one man have been sentenced to death over an adultery conviction in none other than, Ayatollah, mullah-ridden Iran. As if criminalizing adultery in the absence of a...

OMB Watch "Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted in federal court that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should be immune from lawsuits filed in response to the massive formaldehyde contamination that has plagued hurricane recovery housing. FEMA...

Daniel N. Arshack : "The FISA Amendments Act passed by the House (H.R. 6304) allows the mass acquisition of U.S. citizens' and residents' international communications. Although the Act prohibits the government from intentionally "targeting"...

Richard C. Dieter : "There is no question that treaties that have been signed and ratifed by the U.S. government are the "law of the land" and can be binding on states with the same...