The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prison , 06-9130, to determine whether a Federal Tort Claims Act exception...

A group of senior lawyers from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon urging the promotion of the current ICTY deputy prosecutor, American David Tolbert...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in a dispute over the punitive damages to be paid by Exxon Mobil for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill . Exxon Mobil and...

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday that unless US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey clarifies that he believes waterboarding is torture, Graham will consider opposing Mukasey's nomination. Speaking on CBS News' Face The Nation...

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed on Monday denied accusations of corruption during questioning by officials from the country's anti-corruption commission , according to Hasina's lawyer. Hasina was questioned at the...

Several human rights groups have challenged Israel's decision to reduce fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip and its plan to cut the electricity supply, saying Sunday that the move could create a humanitarian crisis in...

Two Egyptian journalists and an opposition leader have been sentenced to a month in prison after being convicted in absentia of libel, court officials said Sunday. The journalists, Anwar el-Hawari and Younes Darwish, of opposition party Al-Wafd's daily newspaper...

The American Bar Association (ABA) said Monday that there are serious flaws in the fairness and accuracy of several state death penalty systems , and called for a nationwide moratorium on executions . The ABA...

China's National People's Congress (NPC) Sunday adopted a draft amendment to the country's Law on Lawyers that will grant defense lawyers more power in criminal prosecutions. The amendment, the first since the original law's implementation in...

Two websites with ties to Yemen's government Sunday denied earlier assertions that Jamal al-Badawi , one of the masterminds behind the 2000 terror attack on the USS Cole , had...