The current conflict between Israel and Hamas raises a host of legal questions about the application of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). One of the major criticisms raised against Israel is that its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simply put, these instruments seek to spare civilians and others who are no longer active combatants from the effects of ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Barry A. Feinstein, a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the School of Law of Netanya Academic College in Israel, says that it is imperative to conduct a ...

Let's face it: No one went to law school dreaming of one day preparing a privilege log, much less one with hundreds or thousands of entries. But with the vast volumes of electronically stored ...

Derren Chan is a 3L student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (CA) and a law student at the University of Hong Kong. Derren previously served as JURIST’s Hong ...

The conflict in Gaza is replete with asymmetries: the number of civilian casualties on either side, the amount of destruction, the types of weapons used and technological capabilities of the Israel ...

The calls for a new international legal instrument to ban or restrict cluster munitions derive in large part from the weapons’ significant and foreseeably grave aftereffects on civilians, 1 which have ...

On June 27, President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on targets associated with Iranian-backed militias in both Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon executed similar strikes last February. On both occasions, ...

The ongoing prosecution of Professor Mike Ozekhome, SAN, by the Nigerian government raises a profound psychological and constitutional question for both the ...

Recently, the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) has made certain reform proposals to be brought to the Constitution. Two main reforms are central to the CRC's proposal relating to fundamental ...