JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Segall of Georgia State University College of Law says that with respect to affirmative action, the US Supreme Court should not substitute their own judgments of educational policy, diversity and fairness for those of academic experts and elected officials accountable to their local communities…
JURIST Guest Columnist Rebecca Bielski, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the sixth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. She offers insight on the legal ramifications of employees signing pre-dispute mandatory arbitration agreements…
African neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger asked the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) at a public sitting on Monday for a peaceful settlement of the longstanding and ongoing border dispute between the two former French colonies. In what is known as the “frontier dispute,” the ICJ will be asked to determine the course of [...]
A court in Kazakhstan on Monday sentenced an outspoken political activist to seven-and-a-half years in jail for allegedly colluding with a fugitive billionaire to overthrow the government. Specifically, Judge Berdybek Myrzabekov found Vladimir Kozlov , head of the unofficial Alga! party , guilty of inciting dissent among striking oil workers in what became a series [...]
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was arrested and Monday for leaving the capital city of Male in contravention of a court summons and a court-imposed travel ban. Nasheed has twice failed to appear in court to face abuse of power charges. Last Monday a three-judge panel was forced to postpone the first day of Nashed’s [...]
Rwandan citizens are being subject to unlawful detention, enforced disappearances and torture at the hands of the country’s military intelligence department, Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday. “Rwanda: Shrouded in Secrecy: Illegal Detention and Torture by Military Intelligence” documents 45 cases of unlawful detention and 18 allegations of torture or ill-treatment over two years at Camp [...]
A investigator for the Charles Taylor defense team in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was arrested Saturday on charges of contempt. Prince Taylor is accused of interfering with four prosecution witnesses who testified in the Charles Taylor trial and interfering with a fifth person who was about to give evidence in contempt proceedings. [...]
Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in a New York court for the first time on Saturday after being extradited from the UK. Hamza, who is charged with 11 offenses heard and confirmed the charges Saturday and will return for a plea hearing on Tuesday. The charges stem from a plan to establish a [...]
The Nassau County Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the North Shore Hospital may take paralyzed cancer patient Grace Lee, off life support according to her wishes. The ruling denied a motion filed by her parents seeking to continue the use of breathing tubes. At issue was the determination of whether she is capable of [...]
The World Bank announced Friday that former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will audit an investigation conducted by the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh (ACC) into whether there are corrupt officials involved in the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project . On June 29, the World Bank announced that, based partly on ACC findings, it had [...]
