Israel legislative committee approves bill legalizing West Bank outposts
Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved the Formalization Bill on Sunday, which will legalize outposts in the West Bank. These outposts had been previously built without permission from the Palestinians. In part, the bill was...
A study released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that arrests for possessing marijuana exceeded arrests for violent crimes. Law enforcement agencies made roughly 13.6 percent more arrests...
The Freedom of Information Act Was Just Amended. Here's What Changed—And Didn't.
JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Bruno of the Harvard Law School discusses recent changes to and ongoing limitations of the Freedom of Information Act...A few weeks ago, President Obama signed into law a major amendment of the US Freedom of Information...
JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Eaker, former Professor at the American University of Paris discusses the possible legal consequences of the UK's decision to exit the EU... As a historian, I fear Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction not...
What the Kraft and Heinz Merger Teaches Us About Protecting American Jobs
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Alam of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the negative effect corporate mergers have on preserving American jobs... While some public figures paint horror stories of how immigrants steal American jobs, subtler, but yet...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina upheld the state's voter ID law on Monday. House Bill 589 requires that any "qualified voter voting in person ......
2015 saw the highest number of recorded executions in more than 25 years, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. AI records show that at least 1,634 people were executed last year in 25 countries. However, the report...
Citizenship Deprivation in France: Between Nation and the Republic
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Sandra Mantu of Radboud University discusses France's upcoming vote on a bill that would grant the legislator authority to revoke citizenship of natural born citizens...On February 10, 2016, the French National Assembly adopted a bill—Constitutional Law...
On the Road to Abolition: Capital Punishment and Its Uncertain Future in the United States
JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...
Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons
US President Barack Obama on Monday announced a ban on the federal prison system's use of solitary confinement for juveniles. Obama stated in an op-ed Monday evening that after a review of US prisons by the...
