JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University discusses President Trump's willful disregard for North Korea's violations of basic human rights...US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters, and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any such willful US indifference to these violations in another country, especially when they are …

JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, discusses the United States' moral failure of leadership on the issue of torture on the United Nations' International Day in Support of Victims of Torture . . . June 26th is the United Nations' International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Its purpose -- …

JURIST Guest Columnist, Dr. Charles I. M. Lugosi, J.D. LL.M. M.B.E. S.J.D. Counsel at the law firm of Crease Harman, LLP in Victoria, BC, discusses the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision rejecting accreditation of the proposed law school at Trinity Western University, a faith-based institution ... The latest victim in the war against the rule of law and the …

JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn C. Smith of the California Western School of Law discusses the potential implications of the US Supreme Court's recent opinion in Masterpiece CakeshopOne of the year's most-watched Supreme Court controversies, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Limited v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, was never likely to deliver the full face-off between Religious Free Exercise and Anti-Discrimination Rights that many people expected. As …

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University discusses Israel's exclusion from the trial of Saddam Hussein and overlapping mindsets with the current conflicts... Nullum crimen sine poena,  "No crime without a punishment." - Nuremberg Tribunal, Final Judgment, 1946 Whether formally codified or merely personal, memory must always lie at the heart of justice. Today, however, almost no one …

JURIST Guest Columnist Wesley M. Oliver of Duquesne University Law School, burglary sentencing under the ACCA... The federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) provides, among other things, that felons who are found in possession of a weapon will receive enhanced punishment if the felon has previously been convicted of burglary, arson, or extortion. The punishment for the offense of being …

JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn C. Smith of the California Western School of Law discusses the recent Supreme Court case making waves for allowing state and local governments to participate in sports-betting enterprises...The high-profile Supreme Court ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, in which 6 Justices paved the way for state and local governments and private entities to participate …

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University discusses the potential implications of nuclear diplomacy between the United States and North Korea.... "Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatreds, the destruction?" -Aeschylus, presenting the conclusion of Agamemnon If US President Donald Trump should sometime manage to re-start the …

JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the Vanderbilt University Law School discusses a recent decision issued by the Attorney General and its implications on the judicial immigration process...Yesterday, in Matter of Castro-Tum, the Attorney General issued a decision unilaterally overturning two precedential immigration decisions; Matter of Avetisyan, 25 I&N Dec. 688 (BIA 2012), Matter of W-Y-U-, 27 I&N Dec. 17 …

JURIST Guest Columnist Inès Soumhi of Pitt Law, discusses the impact of European Law on the French Tax System... In January 2018, the French Parliament formalized - as part of the 2018 Finance Act - several tax changes likely to impact companies including the repeal of the 3% additional tax on redistributions from the French Tax Code. This suppression, estimated …

JURIST Guest Columnist, Irene Scharf, of the University of Massachusetts School of Law discusses how the "catch and remove" policies of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement violate the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution... In early April, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging recent arrests being conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of …

JURIST Guest Columnist Heidi Gilchrist of Brooklyn Law School discusses the fundamentality of higher education... As high school seniors across the country make their college decisions right now, I would like to raise awareness for higher education as a human right. Many high school graduates will get into the college of their dreams, but their families will be unable to …

"JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the War in Syria and the potential escalation of future global conflicts ...     "Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatred, the destruction?" -Aeschylus (Oresteia), presenting the ending of Agamemnon               Currently, the Korean peninsula, Syria and the wider …

JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Hoofnagle of Berkeley Law, discusses the policing of Facebook's privacy policies and FTC enforcement ... The Challenge of Policing Facebook Are our institutions up to the challenge of protecting users from information-age problems? This is the high-level question emerging from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica debate. While on one hand Facebook and similarly-situated companies will pay some regulatory …

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the recent US bombing in Syria... Nullum crimen sine poena, "No crime without a punishment." (Ancient principle of law reaffirmed at the Nuremberg Trials) For the most part, a military response to the recent Syrian chemical attacks at Douma was obligatory under the authoritative international law. The system of world …

JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health... The constitutional legal doctrine of preemption refers to how state or local laws may be invalidated expressly or impliedly by …

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the implications of a hasty withdrawl from Syria... President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to get out of Syria, "very soon." The president's stated intention here could soon run starkly counter to this country's urgent obligations under binding international law. Moreover, because these important obligations have already been "incorporated" …

JURIST Guest Columnist Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile of University of Arkansas School of Law discusses intellectual property rights of graffiti artists given the changing dynamics in the legal landscape and concepts of nontraditional art... Introduction It was known as 5Pointz but frequently referred to as the "United Nations of Graffiti." It was a five-story former factory complex in the Queens borough …

JURIST Guest Columnist Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., of the University of California Davis School of Law (UC Davis School of Law) discusses how a recent Supreme Court decision on whistleblower laws ultimately undermines the corporations they are meant to protect... In Digital Realty Trust Inc. v. Somers, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 9-0 to narrow the definition of "whistleblower" …

JUIRST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law discusses the potential implications of Gina Haspel as CIA Director Designate....I. Ah, if the Obama Administration had only followed my advice! November 15, 2016, after teaching class in Toledo, I had driven overnight from Toledo with a student, Victor Aberdeen, and arrived just in time to …

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University discusses the true nature of President Donald Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin... "I like chaos." — United States President Donald Trump, March 4, 2018 Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." In the very best case scenario, President Donald Trump is "merely" incompetent, fundamentally incapable of meeting …

JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren A. Rousseau of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School discusses the impact that the onslaught of litigation against the pharmaceutical industry could have on the opioid epidemic...According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 63,600 people died of drug overdose in the United States in 2016 - an average of 174 deaths per day. …

JURIST Guest Columnist, Dr. Charles I. M. Lugosi, J.D. LL.M. M.B.E. S.J.D. Counsel at the law firm of Crease Harman, LLP, discusses the jury controversy resulting from the trial of Gerald Stanley ... Speaking in my personal capacity as a lawyer who acted both as a prosecutor and as defence counsel, I am appalled at the brazen irresponsible conduct of …

JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer Piatt, Sarah Wetter, and Alexandra Hess of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University discuss the recent reversal of long-standing guidance from the Obama Administration on federal marijuana enforcement... On January 4, 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a Department of Justice (DOJ) Memorandum announcing the immediate rescission …

JUIRST Guest Columnist Bruce Ledewitz discusses the potential implications of courts taking a stand on gerrymandering....The unseemly haste of the recently elected Democratic Party majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has undermined the impact of a path breaking decision to void Pennsylvania's current congressional district map as an unconstitutional political gerrymander under the State Constitution. The four votes in favor …