The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Oregon v. Guzek (docket 04-928), a death sentence case involving a convicted murderer's efforts to bring evidence into his sentencing hearing that would cast doubt on the conviction. A ruling here...

Following yet another interruption because of his health problems, the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Monday at the International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic stayed out of...

The Legislative Commission of the National People's Congress of China has presented a draft interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law that would permit a new Hong Kong Chief Executive to be elected to the remainder of...

A UK newspaper has disclosed that the legal advice rendered to Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on the eve of the Iraq war included multiple caveats that were not included in a one-page summary supporting the conflict that was...

The top UN investigator in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni , has been released from his post following his issuance Thursday of a report to the UN Commission on Human Rights heavily critical of US-led...

The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Sunday that prison incarceration rates for 2003 - 2004 hit an all-time high, with nearly 2.3 percent of the population being jailed for some length of time....

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, April 25.The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Halbert...

Francois Roux, a French lawyer advising Aicha El Wafi, the mother of indicted US terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen who earlier this week pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks,...

Senate majority leader Bill Frist, in a taped statement to be aired Sunday evening, urged conservatives to recognize that judges "deserve respect, not retaliation no matter how they rule," and defended his actions to stop Democrats...

Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...