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UK immigration panel orders deportation of convicted terrorist to Jordan
The UK Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) ruled Monday that a convicted terrorist from Jordan must return to his home country despite his arguments that he risks being tortured upon returning to Jordan. SIAC chairman Justice Ouseley said (More) |
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Rethinking Rule of Law Efforts in Iraq
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern, Assistant Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY, discusses the evolution of rule of law challenges in Iraq post-2003 and proposes new criteria for achieving and assessing Iraq's status as (More) |
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Egypt blogger sentenced to prison for insulting Islam online
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil [advocacy website; HRinfo backgrounder] was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog . Nabil, a 22-year-old former law student, had posted o (More) |
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Turkish court hands down 7 life sentences in 2003 Istanbul bombings
A Turkish court sentenced the conspirators of the 2003 Istanbul bombings [BBC report; JURIST news archive] Friday, handing down seven life sentences. In addition, 41 of the 74 defendants received prison sentences ranging from four to 18 years; the r (More) |
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Appeals court upholds asset freeze of Islamic charity linked to terror funders
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a freeze on the assets of the Islamic-American Relief Agency of Columbia, Missouri on the grounds that it was an affiliate of the Islamic African Relief Agency , a Sud (More) |
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The Legal Case Against War With Iran
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the United States today has no legal basis to use significant armed force against Iran, and that another unlawful war in the wake of the Iraq debacle would be very (More) |
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Apologizing to Maher Arar: A Beginning, Not an End
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty, vice-chair and counsel to the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations and a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School York University in Toronto where he also practices law, says that Canadian P (More) |
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Bavarian headscarf ban upheld in German state court
The Constitutional Court of the German state of Bavaria Monday upheld a 2004 state law which bans teachers from wearing religious headscarves . An Islamic religious group had sued the state claiming the law was unconstitutional under the Bavaria (More) |
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Somalia parliament authorizes martial law
Somalia's transitional parliament voted Saturday to authorize the government to declare martial law in the troubled east African country. The authorization and the accompanying declaration of a state of emergency followed Prime Minister Ali Moh (More) |
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Somalia air strike target on FBI most wanted list
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed , one of the FBI's most wanted terror fugitives, was the target of two US air strikes in Somalia on Monday. Believed to be a member of al-Qaida and to have trained with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, Fazul is listed as (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.
