The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of two opposition leaders who were convicted of war crimes for their involvement in the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, second in command of the Jamaat-e-Islami group, and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party will be executed if they [...]
The Rwandan Senate unanimously voted on Tuesday to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term in office. This vote is a step in the ongoing process to amend the 2003 Constitution following a petition from the citizens. The Senate voted to restructure 16 articles and revise 32 others, specifically amending Article 101 that [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to an immigration rule requiring foreign spouses of UK citizens to speak English before relocating to the UK. The provision , announced in June 2010, requires an immigrant to be able to speak English before joining his or her spouse in the UK. The case was [...]
The Dutch Council of State on Wednesday ordered more cuts in gas production. The court came to this decision after stronger and more frequent earthquakes occurred in the Netherlands as a result of extraction. The Groningen , the field in question, will be capped at 22 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year from 33 bcm, [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law argues that France has the legal right to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty following the Paris ISIS attacks… Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, Syria was a French mandate from 1923 to 1946. The deal [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Eaker, former Professor at the American University of Paris, discusses the European Union’s Immigration and Asylum Policy … “The challenge to the European project today is existential. The refugee crisis has brought that to light. What was unimaginable before now becomes imaginable, namely the disintegration of the European project.” Frans Timmermans, [...]
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that same-sex couples with children who had been in a union before same-sex marriage was legalized may be granted custodial rights. The case involves parents Charlene Ramey and Kimberly Sutton, who separated two years before the US Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. During their eight years together, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jennifer Kim of St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2016 is the fifth author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Kim discusses how courts should determine whether a government or state action is promoting a particular religion… On September 11, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday issued an order allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue compiling telephone records of a California-based law firm. Last week a federal judge ruled against part of the NSA’s controversial surveillance program that collects domestic phone records in bulk. Judge Richard [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dwight Duncan of the University of Massachusetts School of Law discusses the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act… In 2012 Chief Justice John Roberts surprised the country with his creative jurisprudence in upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) . He joined the four conservative dissenters in NFIB v. [...]
