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ICTY prosecutor to become Swiss ambassador to Argentina
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte will serve as Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina when her term as ICTY prosecutor expires at the end of the year, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Thu (More) |
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Netherlands reaches agreement with UN to host Hariri tribunal
The government of the Netherlands reached an agreement with the United Nations Friday to host the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . A UN delegat (More) |
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UN, Netherlands near agreement to hold Hariri tribunal in The Hague
The government of the Netherlands is close to reaching an agreement with the United Nations to host the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Dutch (More) |
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Bosnia war crimes court enters not guilty plea for Bosnian Serb defendant on hunger strike
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website; JURIST news archive] entered a plea of not guilty for Bosnian Serb Milrod Trbic Thursday because Trbic failed to appear in court after starting a hunger strike on Mon (More) |
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Ukraine becomes first Eastern European country to offer prisons to ICTY convicts
Ukraine became the first Eastern European country to offer its jails to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday, as the two bodies signed an enforcement of sentences ag (More) |
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Former Serbia army officer indicted for 1991 Dubrovnik shelling
The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor Monday announced the indictment of former Yugoslavia Army Captain Vladimir Kovacevic for war crimes associated with the 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik . In the siege, Kovacevic's artillery unit allegedl (More) |
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ICTY prosecutor urges capture of war crimes fugitives on indictment anniversary
Carla Del Ponte , the top prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to renew efforts to capture war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karad (More) |
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UN secretary-general asks Netherlands to host Hariri tribunal
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon formally requested Monday that the government of the Netherlands consider hosting the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafi (More) |
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ICTY to jointly try Bosnian Serb cousins for war crimes
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] said Friday that it will conduct a joint trial of Bosnian Serb cousins Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic [indictment; case backgrounder, PDF]. T (More) |
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Bosnia court acquits ex-justice minister of war crimes charges
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday acquitted former Bosnian Serb interior minister and later justice minister Momcilo Mandic of all charges against him, including war (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
