Draft Act on Greenland Self-Government, Denmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs, June 21, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on legal issues relating to the Arctic.

Awzar Thi : "At a meeting of lawyers in Hong Kong this April, Aitzaz Ahsan described how as counsel for the Chief Justice of Pakistan in the petition against his unconstitutional removal from office during 2007, neither the president nor any other senior official had even read the charges brought against the judge, which they [...]

Greenlanders Sunday celebrated their national day with the establishment of a self-rule arrangement that increases the island's autonomy from Denmark. Under the Greenland Self Government Act presented by Denmark's Queen Margrethe to Greenland's new socialist Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist , Greenland now controls its own law enforcement and domestic courts and will receive a higher [...]

Portugal will accept two or three Guantanamo detainees already cleared for release, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said in an interview Saturday. Amado indicated that the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Affairs would have to determine the legal framework for receiving the detainees. The agreement resulted from a meeting on Friday between Amado and US Ambassador [...]

Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown Saturday survived a vote of no confidence by Bermuda's lower house of parliament, the House of Assembly , which was seen as an attempt to punish Brown for accepting four Uighur Guantanamo detainees to the Atlantic island nation last week. The resolution , proposed by members of the opposition United Bermuda [...]

A European Council summit meeting in Brussels concluded on Friday with a resolution to create a new European financial supervisory and monitoring system. The new system will seek to balance the need of coordinating efforts on financial supervision, particularly in times of crisis, with the autonomy of each member nation over their own financial stability. [...]

A three-member independent commission established by the UN to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will begin its work on July 1, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday. The commission, anticipated since February, will be led by Chilean Ambassador to the UN Heraldo Munoz , who served as President of [...]

The US House of Representatives Friday approved four separate articles of impeachment against Judge Samuel Kent of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Kent is the first federal judge to be impeached in 20 years, and only the thirteenth federal judge ever to be impeached. No members of the House voted [...]

Texas financier Allen Stanford appeared Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , after being indicted on fraud and obstruction charges related to a $7 billion fraud scheme. Stanford, through his investment companies Stanford International Bank (SIB), Stanford Group Company (SGC) and Stanford Capital Management (SCM), is accused of violating [...]

Presidency conclusion, Council of the European Union, June 19, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Presidency Conclusion