October 2008 - Posts

• The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes

  Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 3:53 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, who recently observed the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay for Human Rights Watch, says that the prosecution's argument in the case against Canadian national Omar Read More...

• Scare Tactics: Children in the Battle over Same-Sex Marriage in California

  Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:20 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas NeJaime of UCLA School of Law says that despite what some of its proponents are claiming or implying in the run-up to November 4, California Proposition 8 does not involve children or curriculum - it simply involves the Read More...

• The Case Against a National Security Court

  Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:41 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and Read More...

• Why the Supreme Court Matters in the Presidential Election

  Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:04 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that when they go to the polls in November, American voters should carefully consider the candidates' positions and likely impact on the federal courts as the Read More...

• The Credit Crisis: Taking the Long View

  Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:26 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Contributing Editor Douglas Branson , holder of the the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, offers a 50-year perspective on the structural roots of the current financial crisis in the United States Read More...

• The FBI's New Guidelines

  Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:19 AM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the newly-promulgated guides for FBI domestic operations taking effect in December are in fact expansive, not delimiting, and seem to permit all kinds of encroachments Read More...

• President Bush and Partisan Judicial Selection

  Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 2:22 PM from JURIST - Forum Comment Here: (Comments Off) JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that while purporting to have improved the judicial selection process, President Bush has in fact perpetuated and even exacerbated the counterproductive dynamics of allegations Read More...