Google appealed its EU antitrust fine on Monday after Intel’s partial victory last week against a similar EU sanction. Google’s appeal comes two months after the initial antitrust fine by the European Commission for abusing its “dominance in general internet search” to unfairly promote its shopping service instead of promoting Google Shopping on its merits. [...]
A panel of legal experts for the Polish Parliament concluded y Monda that Poland is entitled to seek reparations from Germany over any acts committed by the country during the Second World War. The report relies on various conventions, including the 1907 Hague Convention and the practice of reparations following WWII, to justify its claim. [...]
Maldives authorities suspended 56 lawyers on Monday for signing and trying to submit a petition to the Supreme Court calling to uphold the rule of law. The petition cited court violations primarily in cases against opposition politicians. The Department of Judicial Administration (DJA) deemed the petition to be an unlawful document because it interfered with [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called the situation in Myanmar “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council’s 36th regular session Monday. During his oral presentation, Zeid addressed a lack of consistency in human rights policies, EU nonuniform voice in global human rights, [...]
A Guatemalan congressional committee on Sunday recommended that President Jimmy Morales’ immunity should be voided so the attorney general and the UN can investigate illegal campaign financing allegations. According to the attorney general and head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala , Morales misappropriated over $800,000 from his 2015 campaign The recommendation to [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN agency that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement. A Turkish court released a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian Thursday, according [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN agency that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an amicus curiae brief with [...]
The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN agency that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement. In June President Donald Trump announced that the US will no longer be part of the Paris climate accord. According to [...]
A Turkish court released a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian Thursday, according to a HDP statement . Parliamentarian Ayhan Bilgen is the former speaker of the HDP and has been jailed over allegations of terrorism. This release follows a “Conscience and Justice Watch” at the Constitutional Court to protest and demand action for those they [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Professor Pacifique Manirakiza of the University of Ottawa discusses the complexities behind investigations into the atrocities in Burundi and the need for a special tribunal to prosecute the crimes … In April 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda opened a preliminary examination focusing on the third term related atrocities [...]
