A 2003 US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum demonstrates that the detention of Illinois resident and Qatari native Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri "lacks legal basis" as the detention...

The Assembly of Kosovo Wednesday adopted the country's new draft constitution without a vote, which was signed earlier this week by top Kosovo officials. Last week, the European Union certified...

A Peruvian court Tuesday convicted four former Peruvian military officers of kidnapping and murder for their roles in the 1992 La Cantuta massacre , which left one professor and nine students at Lima's La Cantuta University dead. The...

The judicial members of the House of Lords making up Britain's highest court on Wednesday denied a request by two mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq for a public inquiry into the legality of UK's decision to go...

Human Rights Watch accused the CIA Tuesday of transferring terror suspects to Jordan following September 11, saying that the US sent them there for interrogations as part of the CIA's rendition program [JURIST news...

Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said Tuesday he was resigning as head of the lawyer's association and then appeared to back away from that statement after a crowd of lawyers and...

The National Assembly of Senegal on Tuesday amended the Senegalese Constitution to give Senegalese courts jurisdiction over the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre , who is...

Daniel Bellemare , the former Canadian federal prosecutor now heading the United Nations probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , asked the UN Security Council Tuesday to extend his...

Joseph Sher v. Lafayette Insurance Company, et al., Supreme Court of Louisiana, April 8, 2008 . Read the full...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday launched a new initiative to combat income tax evasion. The National Tax Defier Initiative (TAXDEF) will investigate and prosecute those who actively "defy and deny" US tax...