Officials and community advocates in New Orleans have proposed using the Roman law concept of usufruct to allow authorities to gain temporary control of privately owned homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina . Coming into Louisiana state...

Partial results of the referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq press briefing, October 22, 2005. Read the full text of the transcript via MNF-Iraq. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Lebanese authorities said Saturday that they have apprehended a man who called President Emile Lahoud shortly before the February 4 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . Lebanon Public Prosecutor Saeed Meerza issued a warrant...

The UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Sudan said Saturday that the Sudanese government has failed to try persons responsible for war crimes in Darfur . Dr. Sima Samar [BBC profile...

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants announced Saturday that they would boycott their trial unless the court was moved outside of Iraq for their own safety. The statement comes after Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense...

Iraqi election officials Saturday announced partial results of the country's October 15 constitutional referendum that pointed towards approval of the draft charter in the final count. Figures based on half the returns in 13...

White House US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported affirmative action programs during her tenure as the president of the State Bar of Texas, according to a report in the Washington Post Saturday. The Post cited...

Amnesty International said Saturday that Sudan has arrested and mistreated a human rights lawyer documenting the killing of 30 people in refugee camps outside of Khartoum last May. Amnesty considers the lawyer to be a prisoner of...

A committee of three prominent South African judges published a report Friday calling for voluntary diversity training and the founding of a national body to hear disputes over allegations of racism within the South African judicial system....

A private bill introduced by former Blair cabinet minister Clare Short that would have given British lawmakers veto power over the Prime Minister's prerogative to declare war failed to progress Friday after the House of Commons could...