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JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the recent creation of a Ugandan war crimes court to deal with alleged war crimes committed by the Lord's Resistance Army is not a challenge...

The White House played a "significant role" in a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject California's request for a waiver allowing the state to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on...

Farzana Hassan : "For those who think the veil symbolizes the oppression of Muslim women - think again. In an American court in August of 2006, the veil instead became a symbol of clear defiance to legal...

UK legislators Monday voted 336-176 against a proposed ban on the use of human-animal hybrid embryo stem cells in scientific and medical research. The decision was highly controversial, with many...

Kevin Lanigan : "The U.S. military in Iraq is quickly moving toward its first court-martial of a civilian contractor since the Vietnam war. The case holds some promise of beginning to reign in...

US Air Force Reserve Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , a top Pentagon legal advisor on the Guantanamo military commission trials, said Wednesday that he will not resign despite questions concerning his objectivity. Hartmann serves as legal...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's "establishment" of generals, intelligence chiefs, and top bureaucrats may yet preserve its longtime hold on power by effectively playing off restored Supreme Court judges against its...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury says that the recent war crimes acquittal of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army leader Ramush Haradinaj before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - a ruling now under prosecution...

Deborah Colson : " 'America tells the whole world that it has freedom and justice. I do not see that...You do not give us the least bit of humanity…Give me a just court…Try me with a...

Aleksandar Momirov : "If the recent acquittal of Ramush Haradinaj by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had all the characteristics of a judicial earthquake, then it is only...