Hungary and Mexico's Constitutional Parallels
February 11, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the newly enacted Hungarian Constitution has significant similarities to the Mexican Constitution of 1917, particularly in its provisions dealing with the recognition of religions and the resistance to these provisions...The ye....... [more] 
Understanding Lakey: Abortion Rights and the Right to Know
February 11, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may result in changes to Firs....... [more]
Prosecuting the Political Crimes of Brazil's Military Dictatorship
February 10, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Caio Abramo, LL.M. candidate at the Graduate School of Law, Economics and Governance at the University of Utrecht, is currently doing preliminary studies in international public law. He discusses Brazil's obligation to prosecute political crimes committed during the rule of th....... [more]
Calling for Greater Awareness of Disability Culture in the Legal System
February 6, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Borrelle, Syracuse University College of Law Class of 2013, works in the Disability Rights Clinic at Syracuse University. He argues that the current medical model of disability used in the US legal system should be rejected in order to further societal and legal recogni....... [more]
A Case for Moving Away From the Death Penalty
February 2, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Crystal Whalen, Texas Tech University School of Law Class of 2012, is a student attorney at the Regional Public Defender's Office for Capital Cases in Lubbock, Texas. She argues in favor of moving away from the death penalty and makes a case for its unconstitutionality...As Am....... [more]
Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Impede Safety Goals
February 2, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Jill Levenson, Associate Professor of Psychology at Lynn University, says that sex offender residency restrictions often do little to prevent repeat offenses because are based on stereotypical notions of recidivism among sex offenders...Recently, the US Court of Appeals for th....... [more]
Blurring the Legal Lines on Targeted Strikes
February 1, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank of Emory University School of Law says that the current US policy of justifying all targeted strikes with reference to both armed conflict and self-defense has a detrimental effect on both current implementation and future development of the law...US targeted stri....... [more]
Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution
January 30, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Anne Twomey of the University of Sydney Law School says that there are considerable challenges to passing the proposed changes to the Australian Constitution, in large part because they raise the question of how much control over the legislative process ought to be granted to....... [more]
Redefining Roe: Informed Consent and the Abortion Debate
January 24, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that a recent decision by Fifth Circuit gives broad support for laws requiring physicians to provide certain information to patients requesting an abortion, and that this represents a shift in the debate over abortion r....... [more]
Ministerial Exemption is Shrouded in Uncertainty
January 21, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey Pasek of Cozen O'Connor says that despite the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, there is little guidance given on how to uniformly apply the ministerial exemption to varying circumstances...What are we to....... [more]
Defining the Parental Rights of Same-Sex Spouses
January 14, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that while a recent Iowa court decision may be a victory for the rights of same-sex parents, the arguments made in the public debate surrounding the case demonstrate a break from the goals of the early gay rights moveme....... [more]
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