Op-eds on legal news by law professors and JURIST special guests. http://jurist.org/forum JURISTremove_this@pitt.edu JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that, in order to counter China's attempts to expand its maritime jurisdiction, the US must become a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/michael-kelly-china-unclos.php 2012-10-04T12:15:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/michael-kelly-china-unclos.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that, in order to counter China's attempts to expand its maritime jurisdiction, the US must become a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Cox of the City University of New York School of Law says that the CIA should respond to the National Archives inquiry into the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes in order to prevent any further destruction of important records... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/douglas-cox-cia-records.php 2012-10-03T12:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/douglas-cox-cia-records.php Michael Kalis JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Cox of the City University of New York School of Law says that the CIA should respond to the National Archives inquiry into the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes in order to prevent any further destruction of important records...]]> JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law argues that the US government's refusal to prosecute those responsible for torture is a hypocritical policy that violates both domestic and international law... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/marjorie-cohn-torture-prosecution.php 2012-10-01T21:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/marjorie-cohn-torture-prosecution.php Michael Kalis JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law argues that the US government's refusal to prosecute those responsible for torture is a hypocritical policy that violates both domestic and international law...]]> JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law examines allegations made by Alternate Judge El Hadji Malick Sow at the end of Charles Taylor's trial and argues for the establishment of an independent, fact-finding commission to promote transparency and public confidence in the Special Court for Sierra Leone... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/charles-jalloh-sow-scsl.php 2012-10-01T08:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/10/charles-jalloh-sow-scsl.php Clay Flaherty JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law examines allegations made by Alternate Judge El Hadji Malick Sow at the end of Charles Taylor's trial and argues for the establishment of an independent, fact-finding commission to promote transparency and public confidence in the Special Court for Sierra Leone...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School argues that Attorney General Eric Holder should have given some explanation for his decision to refrain from prosecuting any suspects after spending years investigating the Central Intelligence Agency's abuse of interrogation methods that led to the deaths of at least two detainees... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/tung-yin-holder-discretion.php 2012-09-26T12:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/tung-yin-holder-discretion.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School argues that Attorney General Eric Holder should have given some explanation for his decision to refrain from prosecuting any suspects after spending years investigating the Central Intelligence Agency's abuse of interrogation methods that led to the deaths of at least two detainees...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Perry Moriearty of the University of Minnesota Law School says that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs marks an important step toward restoring principles of rehabilitation to the juvenile justice system... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/perry-moriearty-juvenile-justice.php 2012-09-24T16:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/perry-moriearty-juvenile-justice.php Michael Kalis JURIST Guest Columnist Perry Moriearty of the University of Minnesota Law School says that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs marks an important step toward restoring principles of rehabilitation to the juvenile justice system...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the continuing military detention of persons who have been cleared for release is an unjustifiable consequence of the political aspects of the war on terror... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/david-frakt-guantanamo-detainees.php 2012-09-20T08:30:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/david-frakt-guantanamo-detainees.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the continuing military detention of persons who have been cleared for release is an unjustifiable consequence of the political aspects of the war on terror...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of the Saint Louis University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's decisions in reproductive rights cases may complicate efforts to bring constitutional challenges against California's recent legislation banning the use of sexual orientation therapy on minors... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/mary-ziegler-gender-standards.php 2012-09-18T14:00:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/mary-ziegler-gender-standards.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of the Saint Louis University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's decisions in reproductive rights cases may complicate efforts to bring constitutional challenges against California's recent legislation banning the use of sexual orientation therapy on minors...]]> JURIST Guest Columnists Jane Mansbridge of the Harvard Kennedy School and Chibli Mallat of the S.J. Quinney College of Law say that the international community ought to develop a system to trigger intervention when governments violently suppress nonviolent revolutionary efforts, so that revolutionaries are not encouraged to utilize violent means... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/mallat-mansbridge-nonviolent-intervention.php 2012-09-11T15:15:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/09/mallat-mansbridge-nonviolent-intervention.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Guest Columnists Jane Mansbridge of the Harvard Kennedy School and Chibli Mallat of the S.J. Quinney College of Law say that the international community ought to develop a system to trigger intervention when governments violently suppress nonviolent revolutionary efforts, so that revolutionaries are not encouraged to utilize violent means...]]> JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the trend of hiring independent corporate investigators and monitors, as exemplified by the most recent investigation into The Pennsylvania State University, has become overly expensive and fails to bring about greater accountability... http://jurist.org/forum/2012/08/douglas-branson-freeh-report.php 2012-08-31T17:55:00-05:00 http://jurist.org/forum/2012/08/douglas-branson-freeh-report.php Caleb Pittman JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the trend of hiring independent corporate investigators and monitors, as exemplified by the most recent investigation into The Pennsylvania State University, has become overly expensive and fails to bring about greater accountability...]]>