Amnesty International (AI) on Sunday reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) took legal custody of former commander of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Dominic Ongwen in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui last week. AI believes that transferring Ongwen to the ICC is a huge step to ensuring justice for the crimes against humanity committed by [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments for the case Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar which may undo campaign finance restrictions on state judicial candidates around the country. The plaintiff Lanell Williams-Yulee was a county judge candidate in Florida, who during her 2009 campaign sent out a mass email asking for donations. For [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Yvonne Y. Kwan, doctoral candidate of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, discusses the politics surrounding the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunals …Political narratives of pain and suffering are most often constructed by those who sanction the production and circulation of those narratives. Such critiques of history are particularly salient and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Elizabeth C. Varner, Diane Penneys Edelman and Leila Amineddoleh of Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation respond to the piece by Walter Olson on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and counter his assertion that the Act has the effect opposite to what Congress intended… Recently JURIST Guest Columnist Walter Olson [...]
During a Holocaust memorial service at the Park East Synagogue in New York City on Saturday, UN Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said preventing genocide requires making concerted efforts to figure out the forces that cause it. Eliasson emphasized attempting to improve understanding between communities of different faiths, as we live in a time when violent people [...]
The Paris Administrative Tribunal on Saturday upheld a police chief’s ban on an “Islamists out of France” rally planned for Sunday. The demonstration, which was organized by two groups: Secular Riposte and Resistance Republicaine, was banned because of fears it would cause civil unrest. One group organizing the event said that rallies will still go [...]
The Indonesian government on Saturday executed six people convicted of drug trafficking. Ignoring last minute diplomatic pleas by foreign leaders, the six drug smugglers, including five foreigners, were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight. The foreign convicts were from Nigeria, Malawi, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Brazil. The executions were part of a plan by [...]
A Qatari man arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks and labeled an “enemy combatant” was released and returned to his home nation on Saturday. Ali bin Kahlah al-Marri was held by US authorities for six years and later pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization in 2009, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anjelica Violi, Valparaiso University Law School Class of 2016, discusses the education of men and boys on female equality …In the last six months the UN has gained newfound attention with its strong efforts to perpetuate the education of males on female equality and human rights. This past September 2014 UN Women [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Mario Acosta Jr., Valparaiso University Law School Class of 2016, discusses and evaluates several methods of force used by police … Throughout recent history police officers have been scrutinized for the things they do. Even today not much has changed. The evolution of technology has brought their job to every television [...]
