JURIST Guest Columnist Ibrahim Fares, an LL.M. Candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, explains the impact of religion on legal rights in Palestine… Religion affects many aspects of life in Palestine, including legal rights. One sensitive issue in Palestine is converting from Islam to Christianity (or vice versa) and [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers urged Argentina Tuesday to ensure the Judicial Council’s independence by reconsidering two draft bills that were approved last week. The two bills reform the Judicial Council and regulate precautionary measures. One bill alters the council candidacy requirements and reduces the majority number requirements for [...]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to make an effort to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay . At a news conference Tuesday, Obama was asked about the ongoing hunger strike , now involving 100 of the 166 detainees. He responded, “Well, it is not a surprise to me that we’ve [...]
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill into law on Monday allowing undocumented immigrant students to attend public universities at the same tuition rate as in-state residents. The Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET) law requires students to have attended high school in Colorado for at least three years or have earned a [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Ukraine violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by jailing former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for politically-motivated reasons. The court ruled that Tymoskenko’s indefinite pre-trial detention was arbitrary and that it was not properly reviewed. The government also breached the ECHR by not providing Tymoshenko [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Obama administration should release those detainees held at Guantanamo Bay who have already been declared to not be a danger to the US…
The Peshawar High Court of Pakistan on Tuesday banned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from running for public office for the rest of his life. The court also extended Musharraf’s house arrest over the murder of Benazir Bhutto . Saad Shibli, a lawyer for Mushaarraf, said he would challenge the ruling in the Pakistan Supreme [...]
Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled Monday that President Evo Morales can run for a third election term despite the single re-election provision in the Bolivian Constitution . The constitution was amended in 2009 after Morales’s first term in office began in 2005. In 2008, Morales engineered an endorsement of the constitution by agreeing not to seek [...]
The UN International Labor Organization (ILO) on Monday released a report on child labor advocating social protections as the key to ending the practice. “ report contributes to a better understanding of the underlying economic and social vulnerabilities that generate child labour.” Globally, the ILO estimates that at least 215 million children are in an [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in an appeal over Albama’s immigration law. In Alabama v. United States the court was asked to consider whether federal law preempts several provisions of Alabama’s HB 56 . The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down a number of the provisions while upholding [...]
