Jasna Sarcevic Jankovic : "The location, arresting and transfer of Ratko Mladic and the other three indictees to The Hague is not only our international obligation, but also our moral duty. The fact...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf - the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" - to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the...

Benjamin Ward : "The Home Office announced on December 6 that it will ask Parliament to grant it special powers to extend the 28-day pre-charge detention period in terrorism cases. The...

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that last week's executive privilege ruling by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shows that Congress has the stronger argument in its fight for White House...

Mark Earley : "The Eighth Circuit recently clarified the law surrounding government funding for faith-based services that address America's intractable social problems. Americans United for Separation of Church and State had challenged the state...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that new revelations about top US lawmakers' encouragement and support of state-sponsored torture in the years immediately following 9/11 make them complicit in acts many would...

Terry Kay Rockefeller : "I am a long time opponent of the death penalty, in all cases, for the fundamental reason that I do not want to be the...

J. Wells Dixon : "The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) returned to the United States Supreme Court yesterday for arguments in Al Odah v. United States and Boumediene v....

Alex Luchenitser : "On December 3, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuitruled that the State of Iowa has violated the constitutional guaranteeof separation of church and state...

John Whitehead : "As oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush concluded this afternoon, one could not help but think that it will prove to be...