JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the continuing military detention of persons who have been cleared for release is an unjustifiable consequence of the political aspects of the war on terror…
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a request by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) for an injunction against use of Texas’s interim Congressional and legislative district maps in the 2012 congressional elections. The court denied the request without explanation. LULAC asked the court to reject the maps last week, saying the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday reversed a district court ruling in favor of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) which had permitted regulations requiring the disclosure of political donors. The FEC regulations were promulgated from the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) . The regulation in question requires the [...]
The Italian Court of Cassation on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 former CIA officers for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was originally sentenced to eight years in prison, while 22 other Americans were sentenced to five years after [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai on Wednesday condemned the recent violence that erupted after a US citizen released an anti-Islam film. Kiai stated that protests and rallies must be peaceful to be protected by international human rights law and noted that the right [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday granted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic 300 hours to present evidence in his defense. Karadzic had requested a total of 600 hours to present his defense, citing the 300 hours allocated to the prosecution and an additional 300 hours to rebut the 2,300 [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Katie McLay, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, is an officer for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s Federalist Society. She compares and contrasts the current controversy surrounding two salient constitutional issues: gun control and voter ID laws…
Brazil’s National Truth Commission announced Monday that it will limit its inquiry to human rights abuses committed by the government under Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. There were some within the nation that hoped that the commission would also look at abuses by leftist guerrilla groups that were in conflict with the regime. [...]
Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa pledged on Wednesday to fulfill the 158 recommendations included in the UN Universal Periodic Review regarding human rights abuses against political opposition. Al Khalifa said Bahrain would begin accepting peaceful political opposition . It is unclear if Bahrain will change how it handles dissent [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday lifted an injunction that barred enforcement of a controversial provision of Arizona’s immigration law requiring law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of persons they stop or arrest if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the [...]
