JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Lee, a former Navy JAG now practising national security law, says that kicking contractors off the American battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan is not the answer to alleged problems and abuses; security contractors aren't mercenaries and...

Julien Ball : "Back to the killing game. That is what the Supreme Court's decision upholding the method of execution known as "lethal injection" means. Thirty-five states that use the death penalty put...

Daniel M. Smith : "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power...

Asim Qureshi : "After years of being held in detention without charge, the British men released from Guantanamo Bay who are pursuing legal action against the intelligence services are sending a very clear message to both governments and...

Richard C. Dieter : "On April 16, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a splintered decision on the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection process. Despite the seven different opinions, there were many aspects of the decision...

John Cummings : "The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees represents a sweeping vindication of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's execution procedures against constitutional attack. The plurality...

Sarah Tofte : "On April 16, in Baze v. Rees, the US Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of Kentucky's use of lethal injection as a method of execution. Although on the surface...

Laura Porter : "The Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Baze v Rees this week, upholding the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection protocols. Texas has already taken the Court's ruling as a...

Frank Kendall : "Last week I traveled to Guantánamo Navy Base as a monitor for Human Rights First. I observed pretrial hearings in the cases of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the controversy over ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty is somewhat strange as the Treaty represents no...