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UN rights experts urge intervention to protect minorities in Iraq
A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged Iraq and the international community to intervene against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist advance on the displaced Yazidi people and other minority groups trapped in rebel-controlled territory in (More) |
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UN names experts to Gaza war crimes panel
The UN Human rights Council on Monday appointed three experts to an international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged international humanitarian and human rights law violations committed by both Israelis and Palestinians during the recent (More) |
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US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses the ongoing conflict in Gaza ... By sending vast amounts of military aid to Israel, members of the US Congress, President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama (More) |
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Tunisia reopens its main border crossing with Libya
Tunisia reopened its main border crossing with Libya on Saturday after suspending it on Friday after thousands of Egyptian and other foreign nationals broke through part of a fence at the Ras Ajdir crossing. Fleeing the violence in Libya, thousands (More) |
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UN rights chief calls for end to 'impunity' after Israel attack on UN school
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the international community to end what she called a "climate of impunity" around the Israel-Palestine conflict. In light of the bombardment of a UN school in Gaza on Wednesday, P (More) |
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Hall v. Florida: Over Relying on a Single Source to Set a National Standard
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Schneider, Syracuse University College of Law, Class of 2015, explores criticisms of the DSM-5 after the US Supreme Court used it as the sole national standard to define intellectual disability in Hall v. Florida...In it (More) |
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UN rights council to form commission to investigate war crimes in Gaza
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday announced its intention to create an international commission of inquiry that will investigate all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the (More) |
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Economic Patriotism: Why I Sued Jack Lew to Void the Debt Limit Statute
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Sanchez Williams of the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law discusses the constitutionality of the debt limit statute and why it needs to be eliminated ... Partisan conflict has brought our nation to th (More) |
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Supreme Court allows execution of Arizona prisoner
The US Supreme Court vacated a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , granting a conditional preliminary injunction in the execution of an Arizona death row inmate. The Ninth Circuit stayed the inmate's execution on Sunday, re (More) |
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Don't Believe the Hype: The Real Effect of Hobby Lobby on Employers & Employees
JURIST Guest Columnists Renee Mattei Myers and Redeate Dessalegn of Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, LLC discuss the effect of the recent US Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. on employers and employees... (More) |
World Press Freedom day
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day.
On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
Read a contemporary newspaper account of his admission.
