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Rove denounces judicial activism, praises Supreme Court nominees
Senior White House advisor Karl Rove spoke at the annual meeting of the Federalist Society Thursday to commend President Bush's conservative nominees to the US Supreme Court and denounce judicial activism. This was Rove's first public appe (More) |
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US will not seek death penalty against any charged Gitmo detainees
The US Department of Defense said Wednesday that it will not seek the death penalty in the cases of any of the five newly charged Guantanamo Bay detainees or the four previously charged, including David Hicks and Salim Ahmed Hamdan . The Pentagon h (More) |
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Pentagon says no death penalty for Canadian Guantanamo detainee
The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr , an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay who admitted throwing a grenade that killed a US medic while fighting with the Taliban in 2002. The deci (More) |
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Nigerian separatist leader charged with treason
Ralph Uwazurike [This Day profile], the leader of a Nigerian separatist organization has been charged with treason for his role in campaigning for the creation of an independent Biafra Nation . Uwazurike and six other alleged co-conspirators have (More) |
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Rwanda seeks high court permission to send priest to Belgium for genocide trial
The Rwandan government wants to send a Catholic priest back to his home of Belgium to face trial on genocide charges and asked its highest court on Tuesday for permission to do so. Catholic missionary Guy Theunis is accused of publishing extremis (More) |
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New Rules of the Game: The UK Terrorism Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings threatens t (More) |
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Senate Democrats want January confirmation hearings on Alito nomination
Senate Democrats are calling for confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito [official profile; JURIST news archive] to be held in 2006. According to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, & (More) |
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Japan justice minister backs away from anti-death penalty statement
New Japanese Minister of Justice Seiken Sugiura on Tuesday had to retreat from a statement he made earlier in the day indicating that he would not sign execution orders. Sugiura initially said that he would not sign execution orders due to his oppo (More) |
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UN rights experts question fairness of Andijan rebel trial
Experts with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the fairness of the trial of 15 men in Uzbekistan charged with terrorism and precipitating the violent uprising in the town of Andijan in May 2005, according to (More) |
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China high court confirms plan to review all death sentences
The Supreme Court of China Thursday confirmed its plan to remove the authority from lower courts to review death sentences , which is expected to decrease the number of execution sentences currently given and also prevent fatal miscarriages of just (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.
