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Testing Human Rights Through Human Gene Patenting in COVID-19
COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus has emerged as a global threat that has changed the world order and has challenged all the predetermined notions of societal existence. This is the point in history that will be studied in the future for the decision (More) |
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Brazil Supreme Court limits federal lawmaker immunity
The Brazil Supreme Federal Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled to limit the immunity from local prosecution granted to federal lawmakers in the country. Earlier, members of the Brazil National Congress could only be tried in the Supreme Court (More) |
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New report urges solutions to crime in Latin America
A new report by IGARAPÉ Institute outlines the continuing rise in crime in Latin America and demands urgent solutions. According to the report released Thursday, crime rates will continue to rise until new innovative preventive programs are imple (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 21 April 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Liberian commander known as "Jungle Jabbah" to 30 years in prison for defrauding the US immigration authorities and lying about his role duri (More) |
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Brazil appeals court denies Lula appeal
The Fourth Federal Regional Court in Brazil on Wednesday denied another appeal from former president Lula da Silva . Lula was jailed earlier this month after losing an appeal to the Supreme Court of Brazil. This failed appeal is year another se (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 7 April 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: David Kaye , the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression urged Spain on Friday not to press rebellion charges against Cataloni (More) |
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Brazil judge issues warrant for former president Lula
A Brazilian federal judge on Thursday issued a warrant for former president Luiz Inacio da Silva's arrest. Judge Sergio Moro issued the arrest warrant several hours after the Supreme Federal Court's denial of a request for habeas corpus from da (More) |
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Brazil Supreme Court allows former president Lula to be jailed
After late-night deliberations, the Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday allowed an arrest warrant for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to go forward . Lula was convicted in July of corruption and the ruling was upheld in March. The cour (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 31 March 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must stand for trial for charges of corruption and influence the 2007 French presidential election. A judge for the US District Court for the Southe (More) |
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Brazil appeals court upholds da Silva corruption conviction
A Brazilian appeals court unanimously upheld the corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday. The ruling brings da Silva one step closer to being barred from running for Presidency and serving his sentence in prison. (More) |
President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards
On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.
