A National Post April 2 article on whether captured Iraqi soldiers dressed as civilians would be considered as unlawful combatants included comments from Curtis Bradley. "My own view is that if people are fighting on behalf of a party to the Geneva Convention, they have to be treated as prisoners of war," he said. "If they do violate the laws of war, they can be tried for war crimes and not have their prisoner of war status denied."

Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks was featured in stories in the March 16 New York Times and the April 7 Washington Times about an Amnesty International USA controversy over unproved allegations that an Amnesty volunteer researcher was the target of Guatemalan death squads. The stories quoted her statement in resigning from the organization's board: "I consider it irresponsible, and verging on unethical, for the AIUSA board now to undertake actions that rest on discounting, denying or suppressing the results of the independent external investigation."

In an April 7 Washington Post story about the Muhammad/Malvo prosecution, Anne Coughlin discussed rules limiting capital punishment to the person who actually pulls the trigger. "Because it's a capital case, it will make the courts take special care and caution," she said. "But . . . there are cases that have clearly opened the way and signal a willingness to extend capital murder liability to other kinds of conduct." Coughlin's remarks to U.Va. students who marched to the Rotunda to denounce racism were quoted in the March 13 Richmond Times-Dispatch, and a story in the March 25 issue of Slate Magazine on the Supreme Court's consideration of anti-sodomy laws included her recollections of clerking for Justice Lewis Powell in 1986 when he cast the decisive vote in Bowers v. Hardwick.

Kim Forde-Mazrui's comments in a U.Va. panel discussion on affirmative action were quoted in the April 18 Daily Progress. Noting that affirmative action likely will be overturned in the Supreme Court's University of Michigan case, he argued that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor—widely considered the swing vote in this case—has often disdained "standards that are too amorphous, too vague. And diversity falls in that realm." He earlier noted in comments cited by the March 30 Hartford Courant that O'Connor has opposed several of the reasons used to justify affirmative action.

A. E. Dick Howard was quoted in two articles in the March 3 Legal Times on potential Supreme Court nominees. Discussing the Bush administration's strategy, he noted: "You would have thought that the Pickering fight and the Trent Lott resignation might have injected some caution into the administration, leading to a more moderate nominee. But the temperament of this president seems to have become bolder and bolder. . . . It would not surprise me to see him nominate someone who is manifestly very conservative." Howard also commented in an April 21 National Law Journal article on rebuilding the Iraqi legal system, saying that a constitution, no matter how well written, must be capable of enforcement even against elected majorities. "That means a constitutional court and judges sufficiently independent to stand up to pressure," he said. "And in the chaos of present-day Iraq, that could be physical threats. Will the circumstances permit them to be independent as judges?"

In an April 12 Associated Press article on the history of free speech during wartime, Michael Klarman noted that the country must strike a delicate balance between maintaining liberty and security. In times of crisis, he said, "a democratic society—if it's going to survive—may have to adjust the trade-off. . . . There are still some people who clearly have the view that once you're at war, you're supposed to consolidate ranks and you're not supposed to criticize."

David Martin was quoted in two stories about the reorganization of federal immigration agencies. In the Feb. 28 Newark Star-Ledger, he argued that the new structure lacks the key element of a single person at the top with the sole job of setting and carrying out immigration policy. "For all the mantras we heard over the past few years that you had to split enforcement and services, maybe we went too far and maybe we overlooked the ways they went together," he said. In the March 7 Denver Post, he noted: "There is some major restructuring that has to go on. I just hope they can keep focused on a few key priorities. I don't think we'll see the progress for several years."

A March 4 NPR Morning Edition story on juveniles and competence to stand trial featured John Monahan's comments on research showing a significant change in judgment and reasoning between the ages of 15 and 16. He noted: "I think this is a path-breaking piece of research and the findings are dramatic: The younger the child or adolescent is, the more problems you find regarding competence."

John Norton Moore was quoted in several news stories about the Iraqi conflict. In a March 12 Christian Science Monitor story about politics at the United Nations, he noted that the end result would be a strengthened international body -- and a U.S. that understands better the necessity of working within international organizations. "It's not just about the UN. We should be learning the importance of working more closely with other bodies as well," he said. In an April 17 AP story on whether the Bush administration should try a captured terrorist for the 1985 murder of an American citizen, Moore noted: "This is exactly the kind of thing you want to be doing, making it very clear that there will be no statute of limitations on those who kill Americans anywhere in the world." He was also quoted in stories on the potential of Iraq retaliating against U.S. targets, a Gulf War POW's lawsuit against Iraq, and correspondent Peter Arnett's controversial remarks on U.S. war plans.

Robert O'Neil was featured in a variety of news stories, including an April 21 Legal Times story on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hosting a reunion of 1962 term Supreme Court law clerks. "We told Justice Ginsburg that, had there been justice at the time, she would have been one of us," he said. "That not being the case, she surpassed all of us." On the March 31 O'Reilly Factor show on Fox News Network, O'Neil withstood a hectoring interview demanding that the president of Columbia University fire a professor who made inflammatory antiwar remarks. He was also quoted in stories about a Fairfax County judge ordering sua sponte that a case file be sealed, Justice Antonin Scalia's receipt of a free speech award, Virginia Tech's discontinuation of its affirmative action policy, and the Thomas Jefferson Center's annual Muzzle awards.

Glen Robinson was quoted in stories on media giant Clear Channel's sponsorship of rallies endorsing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the March 19 Chicago Tribune, he said "I think this is pretty extraordinary. I can't say that this violates any of a broadcaster's obligations, but it sounds like borderline manufacturing of the news." In the April 12 London Times he shrugged off suggestions that the company was trying to curry favor with the administration.

John Setear was quoted in a March 22 CQ Weekly article about Democrats who blamed the administration for going to war. Noting the broad language of the use-of-force resolution that Congress had passed, he asked "Which part of 'the president is authorized to use the armed forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate' did they not understand?" In a Feb. 22 CQ Weekly article about a lawsuit by antiwar Democrats against President Bush's war-making authority, Setear noted that the illegal delegation argument has not fared too well in modern courts. "Find me a foreign policy case where someone has won with the non-delegable power argument in the 20th century," he said. "There just aren't any."

George Yin's appointment as chief of staff of the Joint Tax Committee was noted in the March 1 CQ Weekly and the March 3 Bond Buyer. A March 18 Wall Street Journal article on new appointees included Yin's pointillized portrait and featured his views that there is no better time to be in tax policy. "The administration obviously has come forth with some very bold proposals," he said. "They're not nickel-and-dime credits. . . . For a tax person, this is really interesting stuff."