Victims of alleged torture and international law violations that took place overseas filed their supplemental brief to the US Supreme Court Monday arguing that the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (ATS) is not limited...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to adopt a new anti-corruption law to comply with the UN Convention against Corruption . The new plan will be created by the state's Audit Bureau which...

The four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members who are being held in Libya will remain in "preventative" detention for 45 days while an investigation is conducted, a anonymous judicial source told AFP on Monday. The...

Both sides in the case of former Kenyan minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang announced on Monday that the trial will start next March before the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite the election...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in seven different cases dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees. The court's refusal to hear the cases preserves the decisions of the US Court of...

The Supreme Court of Canada on Monday began reviewing the case of Mohammed Momin Khawaja . The review will mainly focus on the constitutionality of the term "terrorist activity" in the Anti-Terrorism Act...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU-FL) announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit seeking to end Florida's controversial purging of voter rolls. The ACLU-FL contends that Florida's policy of purging...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) provides the exclusive form of judicial review for employment grievances of qualifying federal employees. In Elgin v. Department of...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Evans v. Michigan to determine whether the double jeopardy clause bars retrial after the trial judge erroneously holds a...

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to dismiss the charges against him for lack of evidence. The prosecution...