The Irish Convention on the Constitution voted Sunday in favor of recommending that the offense of blasphemy in the Irish Constitution be altered and replaced with a new general provision to include incitement to religious hatred. The Convention on the Constitution was established in 2012 by resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas , the [...]
The trial of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters began on Monday but was adjourned until January. According to Egyptian news sources, Morsi rejected the court’s authority by refusing to dress in prison clothing and declaring the trial illegitimate, stating that he was still the lawful president of Egypt. [...]
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Sunday sentenced two men to death for crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The court found Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, both members of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, guilty of abducting and murdering 18 people in December 1971. JI is an ally of Bangladesh’s main [...]
A Kenyan court on Monday charged four people with aiding terrorism relating to a four-day siege at a Nairobi shopping mall last month. The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which at least 62 people died and 175 were injured . The four charged men, Mohammed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Briffault of the Columbia Law School says that McCutcheon v. FEC could upend a central element of campaign finance doctrine but even if the court’s judgment is less radical than that, the erosion of restrictions on the electoral role of great private wealth will likely continue …
JURIST Guest Columnist Leslie Esbrook, Yale Law School Class of 2015, shows how the current international framework applies to recent international conflicts…
President Barack Obama on Friday established by Executive Order a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. The task force, with members including state, local and tribal officials and executive agencies, is to advise the federal government on how to respond to the impacts of climate change. The order states: “The impacts of climate change—including [...]
Kosovo on Sunday held its first elections for mayors and local councilors since the country’s secession from Serbia . The elections, facilitated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) , are mandated by the countries’ 19 April Agreement , which requires active Serb participation in Kosovo politics. The night before and the [...]
The Tunisian government on Sunday decided to prolong the nation’s state of emergency, which has been in effect since opposition forces ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Ben Ali fled Tunisia to Saudi Arabia in January 2011 during protests against his 23-year autocratic rule in which his family amassed substantial wealth [...]
A divided three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the contraceptive mandate imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) violates the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause . Before Congress passed the PPACA in 2010, the owners of Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics [...]
