FORUM  JURIST >> OPINION >> Forum  JURIST's Guest Columnists and Contributing Editors offer op-eds and commentaries on topical issues: The Murder They Wrote: US Plots to Assassinate Pakistani Ambassador (August 16, 2004) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor High Stakes in November: George W. Bush and the Future Federal Judiciary (August 1, 2004) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Maybe Death Isn't So Different After All (July 18, 2004) Professor John M. Bickers United Syates Military Academy, West Point JURIST Guest Columnist Bush v. Gore Could Happen Again (June 14, 2004) Professor Thomas E. Baker Florida International University College of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Common Plan to Violate the Geneva Conventions (May 25, 2004) Professor Jordan Paust University of Houston Law Center JURIST Guest Columnist Reaping the Whirlwind: Departures from International Law Helped Create Climate for Iraq Prison Abuses (May 19, 2004) Professor Michael Kelly Creighton University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Abuse of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib: Will Prosecution and Cashiering of a Few Soldiers Comply With Intrenational Law? (May 10, 2004) Professor Jordan Paust University of Houston Law Center JURIST Guest Columnist Symposium: The Judicial Confirmations Process: Selecting Federal Judges in the Twenty-first Century (April 15, 2004) Professors Jason Mazzone, Michael Gerhardt, Stephen Presser at al. International Opportunities for Meeting Bio-Threats (April 12, 2004) Professor Barry Kellman DePaul University College of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Essay: Justice Antonin Scalia: Living in Another World (March 31, 2004) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Marriage or Bust? (March 23, 2004) Professor Anthony C. Infanti University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Scalia Explanation for Recusal Refusal is Unconvincing (March 22, 2004) Professor William G. Ross Cumberland Law School, Samford University JURIST Contributing Editor Essay: What is War? (March 17, 2004) Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University JURIST Guest Columnist Spain, EU and US: War on Terror or War on Liberties? (March 16, 2004) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Rouge on a Corpse Won't Bring Mutual Fund Directors Back to Life (March 15, 2004) Professor Mercer Bullard University of Mississippi School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Essay: The West Bank Wall (February 24, 2004) Professor Anthony D'Amato Northwestern University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Legal Damage-Control for Iraq's Looted Cultural Heritage: The Need for U.S. Import Restrictions (February 23, 2004) Professor Patty Gerstenblith DePaul University School of Law JURIST Guest Editor Governmental Withdrawal of Drake Protest Subpoenas Targeting National Lawyers Guild is Victory for Free Speech (February 16, 2004) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor After Goodridge: Will Civil Unions Do? (February 11, 2004) Professor Katherine Silbaugh Boston University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Peace in the Middle East: A View from the Legal Academy (February 2, 2004) Professor Burton Caine Temple University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist WTO Victory on Steel Hides Defiencies (January 23, 2004) Professor Joost Pauwelyn Duke University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Saving Islamic Democracy in Iran (January 20, 2004) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor The Concentration Camp at Guantanamo: Wrong Treatment in the Wrong Place (January 15, 2004) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Bush Immigration Plan Would Reward Lawlessness (January 8, 2004) Professor William G. Ross Cumberland Law School, Samford University JURIST Contributing Editor Essay: Iraqi Reconstruction Contracts and the WTO: "International law? I'd better call my lawyer" (December 19, 2003) Professor Joost Pauwelyn Duke University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Is Justice Colorblind at Guantanamo? [fifth in a series] (December 19, 2003) Professor Darryll Jones University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Trying Saddam: The Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity (December 15, 2003) Professor Anthony D'Amato Northwestern University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Charlie Foxtrot at Guantanamo [fourth in a series] (November 12, 2003) Professor Darryll Jones University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist White Collars and Black Hearts: Who is More to Blame, Quattrone or Kozlowski? (November 3, 2003) Professor Douglas Branson University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist God Goes to Law School (October 27, 2003) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Natural Law vs. Laws of Nature: Will Zacarias Moussaoui Become a Victim of Military Necessity? [third in a series] (October 17, 2003) Professor Darryll Jones University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Unauthorized Disclosures, Classified Information and Independent Investigations: Reflections of a Former Associate Independent Counsel (October 1, 2003) Professor Sandra Jordan University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Ending Poverty by Creating a Constitutional Right to a Living Wage (September 24, 2003) Professor William Quigley Loyola University New Orleans School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Only Themselves to Blame: The RIAA's Last Stand (September 16, 2003) Professor Eugene Quinn Syracuse University College of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Justice Delayed, But Not Justice Denied: Trying Terror Suspects at Guantanamo [second in a series] (September 11, 2003) Professor Darryll Jones University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Symposium: Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Admissions Cases (September 5, 2003) Professors Derrick Bell, Peter Schuck, Susan Low Bloch et al. Inside the DA's Office: Lessons from the Prosecutors (September 4, 2003) Gary Delsohn The Sacramento Bee JURIST Special Guest Columnist The "Embarrassment Factor": Explaining Opposition to the International Criminal Court (August 28, 2003) Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni DePaul University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Sergio Vieira de Mello: Victim of Terror or US Foreign Policy? (August 20, 2003) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Blackouts and Inadequate Transmission Capacity: A Statutory Solution (August 18, 2003) Professor Richard J. Pierce, Jr. George Washington University Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Assassination and Display in Iraq: A Response to Professor Cohn (August 13, 2003) Professor Robert F. Turner Center for National Security Law, Univ. of Virginia School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Representing Terror Suspects Before U.S. Military Tribunals: In Defense of the Military Mockingbird (August 4, 2003) Professor Darryll Jones University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Assassination and Display in Iraq: The Killings of Uday and Qusai Hussein in International Law (July 29, 2003) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor The Problematic Fourth Geneva Convention: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (July 16, 2003) Dr. Robbie Sabel Hebrew University Faculty of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Lawlessness in Iraq and the Failure of Unilateralism (July 7, 2003) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Elitism in Legal Education: The Michigan Law School Affirmative Action Decision Misses the Point (June 27, 2003) Dean Lawrence R. Velvel Massachusetts School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Going Global with Affirmative Action (June 25, 2003) Noah Leavitt, Esq. JURIST Guest Columnist Sodomy Politics in Lawrence v. Texas (June 12, 2003) Professor Marc Spindelman Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Dropping the Ball on Torture: The US Supreme Court Ruling in Chavez v. Martinez (June 10, 2003) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Schadenfreude and Martha Stewart (June 6, 2003) Professor Douglas Branson University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Dastar v. Fox: Public Domain Wins in the US Supreme Court (June 4, 2003) Professor Eugene Quinn Temple University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Viability of Using Military Courts to Enforce Law in Post-war Iraq (May 29, 2003) Lt. Col. Geoffrey S. Corn Chief, International and Operational Law Office of the Judge Advocate U.S. Army, Europe JURIST Guest Columnist The Refusal to Serve in the Occupied Territories in the Second Intifada (May 23, 2003) Professor Chaim Gans Tel Aviv University, The Buchmann Faculty of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Affordable Drugs vs. The Incentive To Invent: The Maine Rx Case (May 20, 2003) Professor Eugene Quinn Temple University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Road Map: Looking for Peace in the Middle East (May 2, 2003) Professor Anthony D'Amato Northwestern University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Occupation of Iraq: What International Law Requires Now (April 18, 2003) Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University JURIST Guest Columnist Confirming Judges: The Need for Rules (April 14, 2003) Jason Mazzone Yale Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Diversity Begins at Home: Supreme Court Law Clerks and Affirmative Action (April 4, 2003) Professor Debra Strauss Pace University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Above and Beyond International Law: George W. Bush as the Austinian Sovereign (March 31, 2003) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Ewing v. California: The Supreme Court Takes a Walk on “Three Strikes” Laws …and That’s Fine (March 24, 2003) Professor Frank Bowman Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis JURIST Guest Columnist Could the New International Criminal Court Try Americans for War Crimes in Iraq? (March 17, 2003) Professor Michael Kelly Creighton University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Justice for the Killing Fields: Re-negotiating the Khmer Rouge Genocide Court for Cambodia (March 11, 2003) Hans Corell UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs JURIST Special Guest Columnist A Trademark Victory for the Little Guy: Victoria's Secret and the Redefinition of Dilution (March 5, 2003) Professor Eugene Quinn Temple University Beasley School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist War Powers: Towards Unchecked Executive Authority? (February 25, 2003) Professor Margaret Burnham Northeastern University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Law(?) of Regime Change (February 20, 2003) Professor Julie Mertus American University School of International Service JURIST Guest Columnist Globalization and Ethnic Conflict (February 13, 2003) Professor Amy Chua Yale Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Legal Implications of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (February 10, 2003) Richard C. Walters, Esq. Federal Aviation Administration JURIST Special Guest Columnist A UN Alternative to War "Uniting for Peace" (February 10, 2003) Michael Ratner Center for Constitutional Rights Professor Jules Lobel University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnists A Double Standard on Torture The US Should Practice What we Preach (February 6, 2003) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Reducing the Impact of Rankings on Law School Admissions A Proposal (February 4, 2003) Professor Jeffrey Evans Stake Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington JURIST Guest Columnist The Iraqi Campaign Against the Marsh Arabs Ecocide as Genocide (January 31, 2003) Professor Joseph W. Dellapenna Villanova University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Who Owns the Rio Grande? Public v.Private Interests in a Western River (January 28, 2003) Professor Denise D. Fort University of New Mexico School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Mocking the Myth of Freedom: Pakistan Views America (January 24, 2003) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor "Should Roe v. Wade Be Overruled?" Wrong Question... (January 22, 2003) Ronald Collins, Esq. JURIST Special Guest Columnist Refining Affirmative Action (January 21, 2003) Professor Stephen J. Safranek Ave Maria School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Eldred v. Ashcroft: Looking for the Bright Side (January 16, 2003) Professor Eugene Quinn Temple University Beasley School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Continuing the Mission: The Appalachian School of Law One Year Later (January 16, 2003) Professor Paul Lund Appalachian Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Commutations are Fine, But Don't Forget the Pardons (January 13, 2003) Professor Welsh White University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Yasser Hamdi and the Fourth Circuit's Legal No-Man's Land (January 13, 2003) Professor Susan Herman Brooklyn Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Marijuana: Federal Authorities Can't Distinguish Medical Use from Recreational Use, But Voters Can (January 8, 2003) Professor Gerald F. Uelmen Santa Clara University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Facing Death in Virginia: The Prosecution of the Juvenile DC Sniper Suspect (January 2, 2003) Professor Joanmarie Ilaria Davoli George Mason University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Agent Orange Heads to the Supreme Court (December 18, 2002) Professor Jay Tidmarsh Notre Dame Law School JURIST Guest Columnist Oil: Weapon of Mass Destruction (December 13, 2002) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement (December 9, 2002) Professor Peter H. Schuck Yale Law School JURIST Guest Columnist "Three Strikes" Should Be Out (December 5, 2002) Professor Michael Vitiello McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific JURIST Guest Columnist Smallpox Vaccination Casualties: Who Pays? (December 2, 2002) Professor Edward S. Richards Louisiana State University, Paul Hebert Law Center JURIST Guest Columnist First Time Unlucky: The Jurisprudential Misadventures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (November 26, 2002) Professor Raneta Lawson Mack Creighton University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Decoding the "Speech Code" Debate at Harvard Law School (November 26, 2002) Garrett Moritz Harvard Law School JURIST Guest Columnist UN Resolution 1441: Compelling Saddam, Restraining Bush (November 21, 2002) Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell Moritz School of Law, Ohio State University JURIST Guest Columnist UN Resolution 1441: Blackmailing the Security Council (November 21, 2002) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor In Defense of Manual Recounts (November 18, 2002) Professor Mark R. Brown Stetson University College of Law JURIST Guest Columnist "America, Yes! War, No." A View from Iraq (November 13, 2002) Professor Bill Quigley Loyola University New Orleans School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Restoring the Faith: Responding to Clergy Sexual Abuse Through Justice, Redemption and Reconciliation (November 11, 2002) Rev. John Coughlin St. John's University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Pitt and the Pendulum: The Hard Life and Times of Harvey Pitt at the Securities and Exchange Commission (November 8, 2002) Professor Douglas Branson University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist The Yemen Attack: Illegal Assassination or Lawful Killing? (November 7, 2002) Professor Jeffrey Addicott St. Mary's University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Election Reform Law is Not Enough (November 5, 2002) Professor Jon Gould George Mason University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Chechen Terror: The Play Within the Play (November 4, 2002) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Contributing Editor Indonesia's New Anti-Terrorism Laws: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't (October 30, 2002) Professor Tim Lindsey University of Melbourne Law School, AUSTRALIA JURIST Guest Columnist Register This! Searching for Better Way to Search for Law Deans... (October 24, 2002) Professor Eric J. Gouvin Western New England College School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Martha Goes to Washington [Forum Extra!] (October 22, 2002) Professor Douglas Branson University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Drafting the Military: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Hunt for the DC Sniper (October 17, 2002) Professor Jeffrey Addicott St. Mary's University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Oh, Martha! Don't Ask, Don't Tell (October 14, 2002) Professor Douglas Branson University of Pittsburgh School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Interpreting God's Justice (October 1, 2002) Professor Laurence H. Tribe Harvard Law School Professor Sean Wilentz Princeton University JURIST Guest Columnists Will the European Court of Human Rights Push Turkey Toward Islamic Revolution? (September 9, 2002) Professor Ali Khan Washburn University School of Law JURIST Guest Columnist Invading Iraq Would Violate US and International Law (September 2, 2002) Professor Marjorie Cohn Thomas Jefferson Law School JURIST Contributing Editor for previous columns, see the Forum Archive