JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony Constantine, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the ninth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. His article offers insight as to how the US government should define significant error in order to protect [...]
A former prisoner began proceedings against the British government last week after Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he would not comply with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) requiring the government to remove its blanket prohibition on prisoner voting rights. The Grand Chamber of the ECHR ruled in 2005 by [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed disappointment with an apparent lack of respect for a ceasefire request in Syria, saying that the fighting must stop for the crisis to end. While the secretary-general reminded the international community that the UN is doing everything it can to bring about a political solution in Syria, he [...]
The FBI released its annual report on violent and property crime, Crime in the United States 2011 , on Monday, which found that the number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement decreased for the fifth consecutive year and the number of property crimes reported decreased for the ninth consecutive year. The report is based [...]
A Philippines court entered a not guilty plea on behalf of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday. Arroyo is accused of misappropriating $8.8 million in state lottery funds while in office. The judge entered the plea for Arroyo because she refused to enter a plea and her counsel stated that the charges were illegal and [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday denied a request by former Ivory Coast president and alleged war criminal Laurent Gbagbo to leave the Netherlands for medical recovery while he awaits trial. Gbagbo had asked the court for allowance to leave the Netherlands while he recovers from alleged maltreatment received while detained by national authorities [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kenneth S. Gallant of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law says that the incidences of documented and alleged child abuse by scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts of America provide a vivid illustration of why some conflict of laws doctrines are untenable and should be abandoned…
The French police, the French Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI) and the Spanish Civil Guard arrested Isaskun Lesaka, one of the three suspected leaders of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) , early on Sunday. Lesaka and another member of the ETA were arrested in a hotel in Macon, France, about 70 [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Saturday for an end to the sectarian violence in Myanmar between the Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. HRW detailed an arson attack in the coastal Rohingya neighborhood at the edge of Kyaukpyu city. HRW also called on the government to do more to end the violence and protect the rights [...]
A judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Friday rejected a request to expedite briefing on a challenge to voter ID advertisements. The plaintiffs, which include civil rights groups such as the League of Women Voters (LWV), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Homeless Advocacy Project , are seeking an [...]
