On Human Rights, California is Better than Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Texas!
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender, addresses prosecutor Michele Hanisee's remarks concerning the death penalty in California... Speaking in favor of Proposition 66, the ballot initiative that seeks to speed up executions in California to Texas-like...
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Hammond of the Santa Clara Law School discusses a recent net neutrality ruling and what it means for the future of the internet...After three tries before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the...
Austria Constitutional Court orders repeat of presidential election
The Constitutional Court of Austria on Friday voided the results of Austria's recent presidential election and ordered that the election be repeated in its entirety. The May 22 runoff saw Green Party-backed independent Alexander...
Obama signs law granting EPA power to regulate toxic substances
US President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday granting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate thousands of everyday substances. The law makes major changes to the Toxic Substance Control...
Sex, Lies and "Severe Impact": In Defense of Judge Aaron Persky
JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas M. Wooldridge discusses judge Aaron Persky's sentencing of convicted Stanford sex offender Brock Turner...Brock Allen Turner was convicted of three felony counts related to his digital penetration of an unconscious victim behind a dumpster at a...
After Texas: What's at Stake for the Rest of the Country in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
JURIST Guest Columnist B. Jessie Hill of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, discusses the newest Supreme Court abortion rights case...Only a few weeks remain in...
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan that would provide all citizens with a guaranteed basic income. The proposal called for all adults to be paid an unconditional monthly income, regardless of need. Many of those who supported the proposal...
Newtown Families' Suit Against Gunmakers Will Likely End in Dismissal
JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas Johnson of the Fordham University School of Law discusses the recent suit filed by the families of the Newtown victims...Some of the families who survived the horror of the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting are suing the manufacturer...
Boycotts, International Law Enforcement and the UK's 'Anti-Boycott' Note
JURIST Guest Columnist Valentina Azarova of Birzeit University Institute of Law discusses how the UK Note is a reminder that greater clarity is needed in the context of the use of boycotts as a means of international law enforcement... On...
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel J. Wright of The Law Office of Daniel Wright discusses the need to revisit life without parole sentencing in the US justice system..."No one truly knows a nation," Nelson Mandela wrote, "until one has been inside...
