JURIST Guest Columnist Sandra Sperino of the University of Cincinnati College of Law says that the frameworks courts currently use to examine employment discrimination cases are too narrow in scope to deal with the type of discrimination alleged in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Dukes…
An internal UN conflict was publicized Friday concerning a dispute between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the judges he appointed to his employee rights safeguards tribunals. Just over two years after Ban instituted the internal justice system, its judges have charged the UN chief with attempting to limit their powers and “undermine the integrity [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Raymond Gilpin, Director of the Center for Sustainable Economies at the United States Institute of Peace, says that the UN piracy resolution will only have a meaningful impact on ending maritime crime if it is complementary, coordinated and comprehensive…
JURIST Guest Columnist Hua Wang, Northwestern University School of Law Class of 2012, writes on the need for policies that combine market incentives with outright prohibitions to achieve enforcement and compliance with international environmental regimes… A regulatory framework allows countries to solve environmental problems that inherently are similar and conducive to centralized decision-making and coercion. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court not to hear Arizona’s appeal of a decision enjoining four provisions of the state’s controversial immigration law . The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction in April before the law ever took effect, and Arizona is now [...]
Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj went on trial on Friday for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia . Limaj allegedly ordered two captured Serb policemen executed and tortured another Serbian captive in 1999. Limaj is also under investigation for embezzling funds while serving as transport minister. The senior politician, [...]
Syrian governmental forces have been committing crimes against humanity , including torture and unlawful killings of anti-government protesters in Homs, Syria , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Friday. According to HRW, Homs, a governorate with some of the strongest anti-government leanings, has become “a microcosm of the Syrian government’s brutality.” HRW [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday that his office would prosecute individuals involved election violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC is expected to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on November 28. The prosecutor’s statement follows a UN report published earlier this month encouraging an end to [...]
Prosecutors at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) urged the judge Friday to wait to commence the trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members indicted for killing former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . The STL has faced great difficulty trying to arrest the members of Hezbollah in Lebanon where the Shiite militia Hezbollah, [...]
A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a “kill team” in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of the four defendants pleaded guilty and received reduced sentences, Sgt. Calvin Gibbs , 26, was given a [...]
