Op-eds on legal news by law professors and JURIST special guests. http://jurist.org/forum JURISTremove_this@pitt.edu JURIST Special Guest Columnist Cdr. Tom Emerick (USCG), former counsel to National Incident Commander (NIC) for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, retired Admiral Thad Allen, explains how existing regulatory rules and agency practices affected the response to the spill and says they need to be changed to better address large oil spills in the future... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/09/deepwater-horizon-regulatory-context-and-room-for-improvement.php 2010-09-06T13:44:12-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/09/deepwater-horizon-regulatory-context-and-room-for-improvement.php Devin Montgomery JURIST Special Guest Columnist Cdr. Tom Emerick (USCG), former counsel to National Incident Commander (NIC) for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, retired Admiral Thad Allen, explains how existing regulatory rules and agency practices affected the response to the spill and says they need to be changed to better address large oil spills in the future...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law responds to Peter Erlinder's article Rwanda: Flawed Elections and the Politics of 'Genocide Denial', saying that certain of Erlinder's criticisms of the ICTR are political or unfounded... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/rewriting-history-after-rwandas-genocide-a-response-to-peter-erlinder.php 2010-08-31T15:43:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/rewriting-history-after-rwandas-genocide-a-response-to-peter-erlinder.php Devin Montgomery JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law responds to Peter Erlinder's article Rwanda: Flawed Elections and the Politics of 'Genocide Denial', saying that certain of Erlinder's criticisms of the ICTR are political or unfounded...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law says that even though the White House is now more openly critical of Rwandan President Paul Kagame's regime, the US and international community at large must take a much closer look at those in power before true reconciliation will come to Rwanda... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/rwanda-flawed-elections-and-the-politics-of-genocide-denial.php 2010-08-28T01:16:42-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/rwanda-flawed-elections-and-the-politics-of-genocide-denial.php Ingrid Burke JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law says that even though the White House is now more openly critical of Rwandan President Paul Kagame's regime, the US and international community at large must take a much closer look at those in power before true reconciliation will come to Rwanda...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that more states should follow Utah's lead in allowing electronic signatures to be used when petitioning to include candidates on election ballots... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/electronic-signatures-ballot-access-meets-the-internet.php 2010-08-20T11:27:02-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/electronic-signatures-ballot-access-meets-the-internet.php Devin Montgomery JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that more states should follow Utah's lead in allowing electronic signatures to be used when petitioning to include candidates on election ballots...]]> JURIST Special Guest Columnist Andrea Prasow, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, says that the players constituting the military commission that tried Ibrahim al Qosi in Guantanamo last week created their own "mini-justice system" to replace the broken system they had originally been handed... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/a-trial-within-a-trial-justice-guantanamo-style.php 2010-08-19T11:53:32-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/a-trial-within-a-trial-justice-guantanamo-style.php Ingrid Burke JURIST Special Guest Columnist Andrea Prasow, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, says that the players constituting the military commission that tried Ibrahim al Qosi in Guantanamo last week created their own "mini-justice system" to replace the broken system they had originally been handed...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Istrefi, Legal Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, says that it would be misguided to construe the ICJ's recent advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence as the opening of the flood gates for all manner of secessionist movements... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/limitations-of-the-icj-opinion-on-kosovo.php 2010-08-12T18:29:33-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/limitations-of-the-icj-opinion-on-kosovo.php Ingrid Burke JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Istrefi, Legal Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, says that it would be misguided to construe the ICJ's recent advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence as the opening of the flood gates for all manner of secessionist movements...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that unless the AU and the ICC establish a proper dialogue, the logic of mutual gain for the ICC and Africa is at a risk of being undermined if not entirely lost... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/the-african-union-and-the-international-criminal-court-the-summer-of-our-discontents.php 2010-08-06T09:30:16-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/08/the-african-union-and-the-international-criminal-court-the-summer-of-our-discontents.php Ingrid Burke JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that unless the AU and the ICC establish a proper dialogue, the logic of mutual gain for the ICC and Africa is at a risk of being undermined if not entirely lost...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that while the recent opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is likely to be an important point of reference for the representatives of other groups seeking self-determination, it is unlikely to be remembered as one of the Court's better attempts to articulate and clarify the law... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/the-icj-kosovo-independence-ruling-an-uncertain-precedent.php 2010-07-23T10:38:47-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/the-icj-kosovo-independence-ruling-an-uncertain-precedent.php Bernard Hibbitts JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that while the recent opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is likely to be an important point of reference for the representatives of other groups seeking self-determination, it is unlikely to be remembered as one of the Court's better attempts to articulate and clarify the law...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller of Western New England College School of Law says that the decision of a moderately liberal federal judge that the application of the Defense of Marriage Act in Massachusetts is unconstitutional on federalism grounds is unsurprising... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/left-wing-federalism-fells-doma.php 2010-07-21T09:46:59-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/left-wing-federalism-fells-doma.php Bernard Hibbitts JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller of Western New England College School of Law says that the decision of a moderately liberal federal judge that the application of the Defense of Marriage Act in Massachusetts is unconstitutional on federalism grounds is unsurprising...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, and his colleagues Beth Lyons and John Philpot of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Association des Avocats de la Defense (ADAD) say that in the wake of the recent murder ICTR defense lawyer Jwani Mwaikusaof the United Nations Security Council must take measures to ensure the safety of ICTR defense attorneys and protect the legacy of the ICTR... http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/Continuing-Threats-from-Rwandan-Government.php 2010-07-17T09:55:12-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2010/07/Continuing-Threats-from-Rwandan-Government.php Ingrid Burke JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, and his colleagues Beth Lyons and John Philpot of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Association des Avocats de la Defense (ADAD) say that in the wake of the recent murder ICTR defense lawyer Jwani Mwaikusaof the United Nations Security Council must take measures to ensure the safety of ICTR defense attorneys and protect the legacy of the ICTR...]]>