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 ...

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the Rules) are expected to go into effect on Dec. 1, 2015. One of the most anticipated changes for civil litigators is the codification of the ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the principle of proportionality in the use of force is a necessary, sensible and humane doctrine of international ...

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 ...

In the film, The Princess Bride, Sicilian bad guy Vizzini repeatedly exclaims that the progress of Westley to locate Princess Buttercup is “Inconceivable!” After shouting “Inconceivable!” one too many ...

Particularly as I scan the social media, the tendency to make judgments about the rights and wrongs of the current Israel-Hamas conflict on the basis of which side has had more civilians killed is ...

Reporting from Jerusalem — The images of destruction after the battle between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas that began July 20 in the Shajaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip have caused many to ...

If all civilian lives are morally equal, as international law holds, then the lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict should be treated with the same degree of respect. (Photo by Sameh Rahmi / ...

US Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer acknowledges during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum that there have been instances in which the IDF directed Gazans to flee to areas where it ...

Last week I noted an op-ed by Professor Laurie R. Blank, clinical professor of law and director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, which discussed ...

Originally Published in the Daily Journal - Januay 31, 2014. Landowners routinely have to give up something in return for a government agency's granting a discretionary permit. Developers are quite ...