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Goldstone, Gaza and (Dis)Proportionality: Three Strikes
on Nov 4, 2009JURIST Guest Columnists Laurie Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic and Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law say that the most glaring failure of the controversial Goldstone Commission Report on the Gaz...
Kirkuk: The Danger of Delay
on Nov 3, 2009JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a comprehensive solution to the status of Kirkuk must be reached soon lest it become for Iraq the type of intractable and fundamentally corrosive pr...
The Use of Force After the 'War on Terror': A Call for an Obama Doctrine
on Oct 29, 2009JURIST Guest Columnist Christian Henderson of Oxford Brookes University (UK) says that although President Obama has made reforms in a number of areas since taking office last November, he has yet to distinguish his administration's policies on the in...
Closing the Loophole: Private Military Contractors and Rights Violations
on Oct 13, 2009JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Maffai of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies says that to prevent governments from hiring private military contractors to dodge their international human rights obligations, lawmakers in countries such as the...
Our Socialist Founding Fathers
on Oct 12, 2009JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that in the midst of the current furor over health care reform legislation we should remember that America's own reve...
Pittsburgh's Police State: Giving the First Amendment a Beating at the G-20
on Oct 6, 2009JURIST Guest Columnist Witold ("Vic") Walczak, Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania, says that the First Amendment took a serious beating at the recent G-20 summit in Pittsburgh when police and National Guard t...