JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Szanyi, staff attorney at the Center for Children’s Law and Policy, says that the Supreme Court should follow prior precedent and ban the sentence of life without parole for juvenile homicide offenders…
JURIST Guest Columnist Valentina Azarov of Al-Quds Bards College, Al-Quds University says that the ICC was wrong to find that it did not have jurisdiction over Palestine, but due to the procedural nature of the decision, there are still avenues open for Palestine in the ICC… On April 3, 2012, the Office of the Prosecutor [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard arguments on Friday on Apple’s request for a temporary injunction against distribution of Samsung’s “Galaxy” products, but it seemed skeptical of Apple’s arguments. Apple appealed a decision by the US District Court for the Northern District of California that allowed some of Samsung’s Galaxy tablets [...]
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the Associated Press on Friday that he is certain that fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will be arrested this year . Moreno-Ocampo pointed to the amount of publicity surrounding the recent campaign by Invisible Children to capture Kony as evidence that people around the world have taken [...]
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act) , which prohibits members and employees of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal officials from using non-public knowledge in making investment decisions. The bipartisan legislation mandates public disclosure of new transactions exceeding $1,000 in an online database [...]
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker on Thursday and Friday signed 51 pieces of legislation , including controversial bills regarding employment discrimination, sex education and abortion. Walker raised the ire of opponents by quietly signing the various bills, then announcing the legislation the next afternoon, before what for many is a holiday weekend. One bill of note [...]
JURIST Assistant Editor Elizabeth Hand, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, is the chair of the LGBT committee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s National Lawyers Guild. Hand argues that sex workers in the US are currently harmed, not helped, by policies aimed at their protection, and she explores options [...]
A Tunisian military appeals court upheld the convictions against ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Saturday for torturing military officers over an alleged coup plot in 1991. The appeals court reduced the four-year sentences against individuals formerly in Ben Ali’s government, including the interior minister and head of state security, by two years from [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned recent attacks by troops loyal to the Syrian government against innocent civilians. On Monday the Syrian government promised to completely withdraw its troops by April 10, but Ban stated that having a timeline for withdrawal is not an excuse for continued killing until that date. Ban called for [...]
Coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo, who took control of Mali last month, on Friday signed an agreement in which he agreed to return constitutional power to the country. The coup, headed by Sanogo took power over the country on March 21 when a group of soldiers rushed the presidential palace, overthrowing the democratic rule that [...]
