September 2007 - Posts

• Staying Pakistan's Presidential Election

  Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:51 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that constitutional questions remaining after the Pakistan Supreme Court's recent ruling that President Pervez Musharraf may contest the upcoming Pakistan presidential election Read More...

• Pausing the Machinery of Death: The Supreme Court Takes Baze

  Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:46 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that in the wake of the US Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in the Baze v. Rees Kentucky lethal injection case, the pending executions of inmates who have brought similar Read More...

• Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom

  Posted Saturday, September 15, 2007 2:48 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the rejection of Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky by the administration of the University of California at Irvine as the new dean of its law school because he is Read More...

• The Hunt Oil Dispute and the Future of Iraqi Federalism

  Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:04 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a dispute over the legality of an oil exploration contract recently made between Hunt Oil Co. and the Kurdistan Regional Government calls into question the Read More...

• Justice for All: Automatically Restoring the Rights of Ex-Felons

  Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:33 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist S. David Mitchell of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law says that in light of the disproportionate and disparate effects of felon exclusion laws on individuals and their communities, ex-felons should have their rights Read More...

• Sharif's Lawless Deportation from Pakistan

  Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:58 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan government's deportation of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the wake of his attempted return from exile raises important legal and constitutional question and Read More...

• 9/11 and the Road Not Taken

  Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:22 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Drexel University College of Law says that on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should remember that the US government has steadfastly refused to allow investigations that might locate individual blame Read More...

• The Jordan Abu Ghraib Verdict: Command Responsibility in the UCMJ

  Posted Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:38 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the recent acquittal of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Jordan of Abu Ghraib abuse charges reflects a structural failure to adequately incorporate the principle of command responsibility Read More...