The Role of Public Policy in the Suspicionless Drug Testing of Welfare Applicants
John McAvoy, Widener University School of Law
The Role of Public Policy in the Suspicionless Drug Testing of Welfare Applicants
John McAvoy, Widener University School of Law
The ILO and Forced Labor: Ameliorating Poverty and the Hunger for Profits
Susan Bitensky, Michigan State University College of Law
UN rights experts urge Venezuela to release incarcerated judge
A group of UN experts on Thursday urged Venezuela to release Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni from prison. Afiuni has been incarcerated since 2009 after she freed a prisoner that the government of President...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a report accusing the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of failing to effectively respond to, document and investigate claims of sexual assault. The report ,...
Despite Claims, ICC Prosecution of Bush, Blair Would Be Illegal
JURIST Guest Columnist Jesse Oppenheim, Brooklyn Law School Class of 2013, offers legal context to Archbishop Desmond Tutu's recent opinion in The Observer...On August 28, word leaked out that Archbishop Desmond Tutu had pulled out of an international summit in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Angela Perone, Staff Attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argues that there has been a drastic change in public opinion in favor of same-sex marriage and that courts are more willing to recognize marriage equality...
A Call for Reform: Azerbaijan's Repression of Controversial Lawyers
JURIST Senior Editor Sarah Paulsworth, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, is a Boren Fellow and has lived and worked in Azerbaijan. She writes about the impermissible pressure Azerbaijan's Lawyers' Collegium exerts on independent lawyers who defend...