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Baltimore judge denies motion to drop charges against police in Freddie Gray trial
Baltimore City Circuit Judge Barry Williams on Wednesday rejected motions to drop charges against six police officers implicated in the case of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in police custody and later died in April. The charges against (More) |
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Questioning US Support for Japan's National Security Moves
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Martin, an Associate Professor at the Washburn University School of Law, discusses how the Japan's government's reinterpretation of Japan's constitutional limits on the use of military force will affect the US foreign pol (More) |
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Trial of Congo war crimes suspect begins at ICC
The trial of Bosco Ntaganda [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], a former Congolese military leader also known as "The Terminator," began at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. The rebel leader has pleaded innocent to the 18 charges (More) |
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EU court finds Italy denied immigrants' rights
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld a 2011 decision that countries must consider immigrants' asylum cases individually. According to the facts of the case , three Tunisian immigrants were detained by Italian authorities while tryi (More) |
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Egypt's Anti-Terrorism Law: A Needed Step or A Legislative Redundancy?
JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Abdelaal of Alexandria University Faculty of Law discusses Egypt's anti-terrorism law... After the revolution of 2011, which resulted in President Hosni Mubarak being forced to step down, delegating his powers to the a (More) |
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India top court stays order banning extreme religious fasting
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday stayed an order from the Rajasthan High Court that would have made the practice of Santhara , or voluntarily fasting to death practiced by the Jains , a crime. The Rajasthan High Court said that there was no dig (More) |
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UN Secretary General urges global community to address migration issues
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the global community to develop comprehensive solutions to allow for safe and legal migration after 70 bodies, believed to be Syrian asylum seekers, were discovered in a truck near the Austria-Hunga (More) |
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UN rights experts: Guatemala must stop delaying dictator's genocide trial
Guatemalan judicial authorities must prevent further "obstruction of justice" in the ongoing genocide trial against the former dictator and the former chief of intelliegence, according to a statement by two experts from the UN Office of the High Co (More) |
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DRC president signs election timeline legislation
A spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lambert Mende, announced Wednesday that President Joseph Kabila [Forbes backgrounder] signed parliament-approved legislation to keep elections on a timeline that will not violate the Con (More) |
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Framing Internationalization of West Papua Issues As Another Kosovo's Independency
JURIST Guest Columnist Dimas Kuncoro Jati, of Gadjah Mada University, discusses the separatist movement in the West Papua and estimates its chances of exercising secession from Indonesia under the Kosovo scenario ... West Papua sepa (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.
