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JURIST Contributing Editor Michael A. Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center says that recent state immigration laws restricting college access for undocumented immigrants are unnecessary and contradict deeply rooted principles of US law...Immigration has always been a complex...

The Georgia State Senate passed a bill Monday that would ban illegal immigrants from state colleges and universities. The bill was approved with a 34-19 vote . According to the bill's sponsor,...

On Sunday, January 1, 2012, a number of new state laws took effect ranging from abortion, gay rights, immigration and more. California became the first state to require public schools to teach the positive contributions of gays and lesbians...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Will of Mississippi College School of Law says establishing pre-embryonic personhood may still fail to outlaw abortion and may lead to the imposition of restrictions on other reproductive choices such as certain forms of birth control......

A member of the Georgia House of Representatives introduced legislation on Wednesday to ban enrollment of illegal immigrants in public post-secondary education institutions. The bill, introduced by Rep. Tom Rice (R) ,...

JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...

JURIST Guest Columnist David Harris of the University of Toledo College of Law says that despite calls from some quarters for more aggressive immigration control across the United States, local police want nothing to do with immigration enforcement, and they're...

JURIST Guest Columnist Neil Kinkopf of Georgia State University College of Law says that the broad interpretations of presidential power under statute being offered by defenders of the President's domestic surveillance program threaten to undercut the constitutional balance of power...

Ellen Podgor :"In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court issued an extremely narrow decision favorable to the government in the case of Pasquantino v. United States. Justice Thomas, delivering the opinion of the...

Podgor :"We posted here that Martha Stewart's attorneys had filed to reduce her sentence in light of the Booker decision. CNN reports today that the district court will not be reducing Stewart's sentence.  As such...