JURIST Special Guest Columnist Basil Fernando of the Asian Legal Resource Centre says that repression of the Burmese people by the military government of the country now officially known as Myanmar is a device used against a despairing people that...

Chip Pitts : "The recent transfer home from Guantanamo of ten more Saudi prisoners (and reports from Qatar News Agency that more of the final 13 Saudis may soon follow) suggests...

Basil Fernando : "This note confines itself to the legal implications of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, though in fact it will also be felt enormously politically and socially. It is important to note that...

John Kamm "The detention of Hu Jia on December 27, 2007 for "incitement to subversion" is the most important move against the small but increasingly defiant community of human rights defenders and dissidents in...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the latest instance of perfidy in a Pakistan whose military leaders have been self-servingly dedicated to America's war or terror... Te...

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "At 6:16 pm this evening, Pakistan lost Benazir Bhutto (BB). Plenty of individuals in this country had severe differences of opinion with her policies and politics, yet one could never imagine...

Diane Orentlicher : "The history of U.S. efforts to punish genocide is full of paradoxes. The United States led postwar efforts to prosecute Nazi crimes in Nuremberg and played...

Maiko Taguscari : "On Dec. 7, the Ministry of Justice disclosed the names of the three death row inmates who were hanged that day, as well as the summary...

JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a recent proposal to turn the contentious northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk into an independent federal regionate could be a starting point for further...

Anonymous : "Mr. Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif was the seniormost Judge of the Lahore High Court on the morning of November 3, i.e. No. 2 after the Chief Justice. Because of the extra-constitutional steps of...