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ICC issues Sudan president arrest warrant for war crimes, not genocide
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday issued [decision, PDF; video, MP4 download] an arrest warrant [text, PDF; ICC press release] for Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir [ICC materials, PDF; JURIST news archive], charging him with (More) |
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US State Department releases annual rights reports
The US State Department (DOS) on Wednesday released its 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . Announcing the release [Flash video; statement text], Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the new Barack Obama administration is seeki (More) |
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ICC to rule on Bashir arrest warrant March 4
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Monday that a long-awaited decision on a controversial arrest warrant sought for Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] would be rendered on March 4. The court sai (More) |
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Egypt joins calls for ICC to delay Bashir warrant
Egypt on Sunday called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for a least a year, in order to allow peace talks between the Sudanese gov (More) |
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Egypt releases jailed opposition politician for medical reasons
Egyptian authorities in Cairo released imprisoned political opposition leader Ayman Nour [BBC profile; advocacy website] late Wednesday for medical reasons. Egypt's public prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud unexpectedly announced the release of ni (More) |
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Egypt court imprisons opposition leader for illegally entering Gaza
An Egyptian military court on Wednesday sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to two years in prison for illegally entering Gaza. Magdy Ahmed Hussein, leader of the Labor Party , was arrested last month on suspicion of crossing into the territory (More) |
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A Call to End All Renditions
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process is somehow handle (More) |
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Egypt court eliminates prison sentences of journalists
Egypt's Agouza Appeals Court Saturday overturned the prison sentences of four newspaper editors convicted of defaming President Hosni Mubarak and the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) . The four men, Ibrahim Eissa, editor of Al Dustour; Ad (More) |
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Uganda high court rules death penalty constitutional
The Supreme Court of Uganda on Wednesday ruled that the death penalty is not prohibited by Uganda's constitution because it does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. The decision comes on an appeal by over 400 inmates on death row of (More) |
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Legal Aspects of 'Operation Cast Lead' in Gaza
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that while self-defense (in the classic model) is the legal basis for Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces' re-arti (More) |
Congress approves first Patent Act
On April 10, 1790, Congress approved America's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" the rights to a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the U.S. Patent Board, the precursor to the modern U.S. Patent Office.
Read the current U.S. Patent Act from the Cornell University Law School, and read A History of the Early Patent Office by Kenneth W. Dobyns.
