The chair of the African Union (AU) , Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , expressed concern that Burundi’s recent violence could be “catastrophic” for not only Burundi itself, but surrounding countries as well. Burundi erupted in violence in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza began his campaign for a constitutionally unsupported third term amid protests and a failed coup. [...]
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced on Monday that it has approved a permit for Royal Dutch Shell to drill off the coast of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean. Shell was approved because it acquired a piece of equipment designed to shut an oil well in the event of an emergency loss of [...]
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Monday rejected calls from protesters for the resignation of the country’s most senior Supreme Court judge. The demand for Judge Medhat Mahmoud to “retire” came as part of demands for governmental reform and the end of judicial corruption by tens of thousands of citizens protesting on Friday. According to Supreme [...]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday approved a 54-article counter-terrorism law which has been met with significant controversy as many believe it to be an infringement on freedom of the press. Many have said that the law defines “terrorism” broadly and gives free reign to law enforcement agents as to force allowed in defending [...]
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday declined to assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University football players can form a union, overturning its 2014 decision which recognized the players as university employees. In its unanimous decision , which concerned players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships , the Board held that asserting jurisdiction “would not promote [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres of the Iberoamerican University (UNIBE) discusses the legal developments of same-sex marriage in Europe… Quite recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered a landmark decision in the protection of rights of same-sex couples under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR): Oliari and Others v. Italy. However, [...]
China’s Supreme People’s Protectorate announced Sunday that it has opened an investigation into the causes of an August 12 explosion in Tianjin. The government has also ordered nationwide inspections of facilities that hold the types of chemicals involved in the explosion. It further announced regulations , which it said had been in place since August [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday submitted a sealed document in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009 government security review that cleared Ba Odah for transfer. In a public disclosure, the US government reported it “remains committed to promptly securing an appropriate location to which petitioner [...]
Last week the US Department of Justice challenged the constitutionality of a Boise, Idaho city ordinance that criminalizes sleeping in public places by the homeless. The federal government’s argument relies on the fact that everyone needs to sleep and by criminalizing the act of sleeping the law criminalizes homelessness itself. For the estimated half million [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced that a former software executive at SAP SE (SAP) , Vincente E. Garcia, agreed to settle charges filed against him for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing Panamanian government officials to secure software license deals. Garcia carried out the bribes through an intermediary [...]
