The Guantanamo Detainees: The Government's Story, Professor Mark Denbeaux et al., Seton Hall Law School, February 7, 2006 . Excerpt:This Report is the first effort to provide a...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it has initiated a status review of the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to determine whether it should be listed...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has backed off his pledge to push through legislation that would allow women to succeed to the royal throne for the first time since the 1700's. The bill...

French Judge Fabrice Burgaud told a parliamentary inquiry Wednesday that he had not acted incorrectly when investigating pedophilia charges in the French town of Outreau. Thirteen people were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39...

The World Trade Organization has made a preliminary ruling that European Union restrictions on genetically engineered crops violate international trade rules. The United States, Canada, Argentina - which together grow 80 percent of all biotech...

US Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence has called for a complete review of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , which governs the monitoring of...

The Italian Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would increase the number of women elected to parliament. If the bill becomes law, it would require that females make up...

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights has said that it will conduct its own investigation into the sinking of a ferry carrying 1,400 Egyptians in the Red Sea earlier this month. Another Egyptian NGO, the...

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has filed two federal lawsuits challenging laws in Maryland and Suffolk County, New York designed to push large retail stores such as Wal-Mart to spend...

Lawyers for naturalized American citizen Shawqi Ahmad Omar, who has been detained in Iraq for over a year, have asked a federal judge to intervene in the case and prevent Omar's transfer to Iraqi custody. US Justice Department officials...