JURIST Guest Columnist Dominic Hoerauf, Columbia Law School Class of 2012, is a Staff Editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He argues that the Obama administration's decision to withdraw troops from Iraq by December 31 is misguided as...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Ann Schunicht, Saint Louis University School of Law Class of 2012, is a member of the Health Law Moot Court Competition Team. She compares the recently abandoned CLASS Act to France's long-term health care system, arguing that...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Guffanti, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2013, is a Staff Editor for the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Journal. He writes on the possible outcome of Yves Saint Laurent v. Louboutin, which is on...
The Conflict Between Fetal Personhood Laws and Women's Rights
JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Goldman of the University of Michigan says that fetal personhood laws, which would declare a fetus to be a person from the time of conception, would have a wide range of consequences for women's medical care,...
Dubious Self-Regulation and Greenwashing Corporate Negligence
JURIST Guest Columnist William Stanger, University of California, Davis School of Law Class of 2014, is a Staff Editor for the school's Business Law Journal. Stanger writes about the shortcomings of corporate social responsibility and how government should play a...
Unintended Consequences: Gaddafi's Death and the Arab Spring
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Toone, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Class of 2012, has spent over two years working and studying in the Middle East, including six months as an embedded civilian social scientist with the First...
A judge in Sierra Leone ruled Tuesday that a woman has the right to become a regional political leader in the country. The High Court of Justice reversed a previous ban that had prevented Iye Kendor Bandabla...
Proposed 42-day UK detentions could violate rights: anti-torture commission
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) released a report Wednesday expressing concern over a proposed UK anti-terror bill which would allow authorities to...
Doctors in the Death Chamber: Where Ethics and the State Collide
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the ethical dilemma posed by the continuing involvement of the medical profession in state executions should be...
International brief ~ Italy PM Berlusconi resigns, ending electoral dispute
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has resigned his position, removing the last legal hurdle to the formation of a new Italian government under Prime Minister-elect Romano Prodi [BBC profile,...