The Supreme Court of Israel Wednesday upheld a controversial law allowing the government to detain unlawful combatants suspected of belonging to terrorist groups. The Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law allows the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to issue an order to detain any person who is reasonably suspected of [...]
Malaysian Law Minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim Wednesday said legal reforms are needed to safeguard the independence of the country's judiciary. His remarks came in response to recent allegations that during his term of office, former PM Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad threatened to remove judges unless they rendered satisfactory verdicts. Ibrahim indicated that the reform [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologized Wednesday for Canada's former Indian residential schools policy , which was designed to aggressively assimilate aboriginal children. The school policy, which was in place from the 1870s to the 1970s, required aboriginal children to attend federally funded Christian boarding schools, communicate in only English or French, adopt the [...]
The UK House of Commons Wednesday voted 315-306 in favor of an amendment to a proposed anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days . Rights groups, opposition MPs and even some governing Labour Party backbenchers sharply criticized the measure, but a majority of MPs supported [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday reiterated his commitment to improving Russia's human rights record, preserving an independent media, and enforcing the rule of law. Speaking at the opening of the 10th World Russian Press Congress , the former lawyer said said : Dear friends, this jubilee Congress is taking place on the eve of our [...]
Former Bosnian Serb police commander Stojan Zupljanin was arrested by Serbian authorities Wednesday. Zupljanin is wanted by the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws of war for allegedly killing civilians during the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s. Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic [...]
Ousted Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry Tuesday joined protests calling for the restoration of judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf during his emergency rule last November. Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement began the protests Monday, following through on last month's promise to hold a "long march" from city to city if the new [...]
Joseph Price : "The four-year long Miller-Jenkins custody case is the first case to test whether a state like Virginia that has passed laws (and amended its constitution) to make clear that it will not recognize same-sex legal unions from other jurisdictions, will nevertheless enforce court orders, judgments and decrees from other jurisdictions, like Vermont, [...]
Judges for the US Court of Appeals for The Third Circuit revoked the US citizenship of a former Nazi guard on Tuesday because he had obtained it illegally. The US Department of Justice alleged that Anton Geiser, an 83-year-old Pennsylvania resident, served as an SS guard at two concentration camps before the US government mistakenly [...]
JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, from Addis Ababa… The Economics of Ethiopian Growth — from a legal professional's perspective Do you have an addiction? Do you even know you have an addiction? As American lawyers, we're addicted to easy and fast Internet, and our relied-upon webpages are our enablers: Westlaw, Wall Street Journal, [...]
