The government of Myanmar received widespread international criticism after jailing democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday for violating the terms of her house arrest. Myanmar's military junta...

Progetto di legge: 2180 (Bill 2180), Italian Chamber of Deputies, May 14, 2009, . Read the full text of the legislative materials . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

The German Bundestag voted Wednesday in favor of heightened requirements for late-term abortions including a three-day waiting period and a mandatory psychological evaluation. Current law in Germany outlaws abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy [text,...

Speaker of the Russian State Duma Boris Gryzlov said Wednesday that a proposal by President Dmitry Medvedev to allow parliament to select the head of the Constitutional Court will be supported by the...

Untitled DOJ Report, US Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs, May 14, 2009 [reporting that 2,083 wiretap and search requests for investigating terrorism suspects were granted in 2008 through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a decline from 2,370 in...

US President Barack Obama is considering six possible nominees for the US Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice David Souter , including five women, the Associated Press reported Thursday. This six names...

The Italian Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday approved legislation that would increase the penalties for illegal immigration by a vote of 297-255. The controversial legislation provides that...

Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee , who signed off on memos detailing the legal rationale for enhanced interrogation techniques, has declined an invitation to testify ...

The European Commission (EC) fined computer chip maker Intel Corp. €1.06 billion Wednesday for violating European Union antitrust laws and ordered Intel to cease engaging in the anti-competitive behaviors. The EC announced...

In the first hearing on whether Bush administration interrogation techniques constituted torture, one witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on Wednesday called memos on enhanced interrogation methods "an ethical train wreck"...