JURIST Contributing Editor Michael A. Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center says that the Secure Fence Act signed into law by President Bush and authorizing the construction of a 700-mile barrier along part of the US border with...

Kristin Jones : "Journalist Yang Xiaoqing's imprisonment caught the attention of ordinary people in China who recognized it as the case of a man who had taken on powerful officials in his home...

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the 24-year prison sentence handed down for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling leaves us all disappointed, not necessarily in the sentence, but in the corporate conduct...

JURIST Guest Columnist and former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor Henry King, Jr., now at Case Western Law School, and JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of...

Jonathan Hafetz : "On October 19, 2006, the district court (Lamberth, J.) dismissed the habeas petition of Mohammed Munaf, the American citizen detained in Iraq by the United States and sentenced to death...

Thomas Nash : "The increasing evidence of humanitarian harm from cluster munitions used during the recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the latest example of a consistent pattern of civilian suffering documented over the last 40...

Ted Mayer : "Merck & Co., Inc. is pleased that the District Court of Berlin, Germany, has rejected two VIOXX claims. In the first case, a 60-year old woman from Berlin claimed...

Ali Khan : "One great accomplishment of the 1945 UN Charter has been its prescription against the threats of use of armed force. Article 2(4) states: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use...

David Becker : "Last week Missouri's Supreme Court, with only one justice dissenting, upheld long-standing constitutional and legal principles in striking down Missouri's restrictive voter ID law. Though the state claimed that the...

Jon Greenbaum : "Since the 2004 election, one disturbing trend in election law has been the enactment of laws requiring voters to provide government-issued voter identification in order to cast...