US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday appointed Lee Wolowsky the new envoy to lead the Obama administration’s efforts to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Wolowsky is a former National Security Council director under the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and current partner at a law firm. Kerry anticipates [...]
US President Barack Obama and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff met Tuesday and announced an agreement to address climate change. Both countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions by increasing the use of wind and solar power sources to 20 percent of each nation’s electricity production by 2030. Brazil also pledged to help reduce the deforestation problem [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Albert E. Scherr of the University of New Hampshire School of Law discusses four outcomes of the FIFA scandal in the context of international criminal law… The FIFA scandal has dominated recent international sports news. As FIFA’s annual conference was about to begin, the US Department of Justice charged high-level soccer executives [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Friedman of New England Law | Boston discusses how the 2015 Kansas bill is a no-win situation for the people of Kansas… Constitutional litigation is, in a sense, politics by other means. Advocates of individual rights look to judges to be their knights, guardians against legislative overreach. But the judges who [...]
France’s chief prosecutor said on Tuesday that the man who allegedly beheaded his boss, pinned the severed head on a fence post and tried to blow up an industrial plant will be charged with terrorism and murder. The announcement by Prosecutor Francois Molins came after the investigation of Yassin Salhi, who was arrested near the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Al-Sarraf, International Program Specialist at the United States Department of Commerce, discusses Iraq’s new commercial court… Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, the US Department of Commerce or the Commercial Law [...]
French officials on Tuesday ordered the trial of two senior executives for Uber Technologies on allegations of maintaining an illegal taxi service. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal , general managers for Western Europe and France respectively, were detained on Monday for alleged violations of a French transportation law that bans running unlicensed taxi services. The [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in four cases. The court will rule on Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. United States and decide whether the D.C. Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court’s Holland v. Florida decision when it ruled that the Menominee Tribe was not entitled to tolling of the statute of limitations [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted a motion to stay , allowing over half of Texas’ 18 abortion clinics to stay open by temporarily blocking a law that would place stringent requirements on clinics requiring the majority of them to close. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month upheld [...]
Tunisian Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli announced Monday that authorities had arrested a group of individuals suspected to have supported a Friday attack that killed 39 at a beach resort. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack and the shooter, Seifeddine Rezgui, was killed by the police. Gharsalli said he suspected an even larger [...]
