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Connecticut judge signs off on same-sex marriage
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert signed a final order [GLAD press release; materials] on Wednesday allowing same-sex marriage in the state. Last month, the state Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that state statutes barring s (More) |
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Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home and (More) |
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US soldier facing court-martial on murder charges in Iraqi detainee deaths
US Army Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. will face a court-martial for his alleged role in the killings of four Iraqis in April 2007 [NY Times report], after waiving his right to an Article 32 hearing Wednesday. In September, Leahy, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph May (More) |
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Death By Child: Calling Recruiters of Child Soldiers to Account
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that US officials need to move forward to establish the rules and regulations necessary under the ne (More) |
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China defends human rights record during UN periodic review
Members of the Chinese delegation to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Monday said that the Chinese government had provided training and enacted judicial reforms to help implement its prohibitions against torture, illegal detention, and en (More) |
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UK parliament panel pushing for reporting restrictions on security issues
Members of the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) are pushing for legislation to limit the ability of the media to report on matters affecting national security, according to an Independent report Monday. Under the curre (More) |
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Lawyers for 'Bali bombers' filing suit against Indonesia AG for rights violations
The Muslim Defender Team (TPM), the group of lawyers representing the three men executed Saturday for the 2002 Bali bombings , said Monday that it will file charges against Indonesia's attorney general, alleging that the execution process viola (More) |
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Converting Gitmo into a Front Line Post in the War Against Global Warming
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that not only should the incoming Obama administration close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, it should close down the stigmatized military base as a whole, (More) |
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The End of the Road for Personal Data Protection in the EU
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that while the European Commission, aided most recently by the Advocate General of the European Cour (More) |
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Demonstrators protest California same-sex marriage ban
Thousands of demonstrators in San Diego and Los Angeles on Saturday protested [Union-Tribune report] the passage [unofficial results; JURIST report] of Proposition 8 , an amendment to the California constitution making same-sex marriages illegal in (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
