JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that unless the AU and the ICC establish a proper dialogue, the logic of mutual gain for the ICC and Africa is at a risk of being undermined if not entirely lost…. On July 27, 2010, the Assembly of Heads of [...]
The Supreme Court of Mexico on Thursday ruled 8-2 that a Mexico City law allowing same-sex marriage is constitutional. The law, passed last year , was challenged by Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez , who had argued that allowing same-sex marriages violates the guarantee of familial integrity under the Mexican Constitution . It was also [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced that 14 individuals have been charged with providing money, personnel and services to the Somalia-based Islamic terrorism organization al-Shabaab . Prosecutors in the Southern District of Alabama, the Southern District of California and the District of Minnesota unsealed four separate indictments accusing the 14 individuals of [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons Thursday in a speech delivered during a visit to the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In his speech, Ban emphasized the importance of eliminating existing nuclear weapons and using political pressure to create stronger nonproliferation treaties: In the General Assembly and at the review [...]
The US Senate on Thursday voted 63-37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court . The vote fell largely along party lines, with only one Democrat voting against her confirmation, and five Republicans voting in favor. Shortly before the vote, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) announced that he could not support Kagan’s confirmation [...]
Federal authorities arrested a Chicago man Tuesday night on suspicion that he planned to travel to Somalia and train with terrorist groups there in order to become a suicide bomber. Acording to a complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , Shaker Masri, an American citizen born in [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of former Iraqi detainees against US military contractors. The lawsuit, Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla , filed in June 2008 , alleges that L-3 Services, Inc. violated US and international law by directing [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for Iraq’s political leaders to work together “with a higher sense of urgency” to form a new government, warning that further delays could create more instability. Since holding elections five months ago, there have been disagreements within the country as to who has the authority to build the [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Wednesday announced that they would pursue a legal challenge to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) licensing scheme, despite being issued a license to represent Anwar al-Awlaki . Al-Awlaki is a US citizen who is suspected of being a member of [...]
Opponents of a new Kenya constitution on Thursday peacefully conceded to those in favor of the change, after early results from a national referendum strongly favored the constitution. Voting on the constitution took place Wednesday amid concerns that high turnout and heated debate over the referendum could cause a repeat of the violence seen during [...]
