Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on donor governments to defend the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) , which Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Interior Ministry to...

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in two patent law cases challenging the constitutionality and statutory interpretation of the patent review process. The first case, Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group , challenges the...

Pakistani Law Minister Zahid Hamid on Monday resigned from his office after a three week long protest against the changed wording of an electoral oath. The main opposition group protesting the change, Tehreek-e-Labaik ,...

A three-judge panel of the Bangladesh High Court on Monday upheld 139 death sentences and 146 life imprisonments relating to the 2009 mutiny that resulted in the death of 74 people including 54...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from African-American attorney Carlos Moore who sought to have the Mississippi state flag's Confederate battle emblem "declared an unconstitutional relic of slavery." Moore filed suit [complaint,...

The US Supreme Court stated on Monday that it would not review a lawsuit over a drone strike in Yemen that killed five people. Earlier this year, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two challenges to state gun restrictions backed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) . The first was a challenge to Maryland's ban on semi-automatic...

The High Court of Zimbabwe ruled Saturday that the military takeover that ousted ex-president Robert Mugabe was constitutional and not considered a coup. Last week the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)...

Former chief of staff Leandra English filed a suit on Sunday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration over the currently vacant director position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes...