India advertising council issues guidelines on crypto assets advertisements
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) issued a set of guidelines Wednesday designed to prevent risk to users of crypto assets and related services. Titled the “Guidelines for Advertising of Virtual Digital Assets and Linked Services,” the guidelines prefer the term “Virtual Digital Assets” (VDAs) over crypto assets. They define a VDA as any [...]
Natural Law and the United States Constitution: Still Vital Connections
Abstract: Ideas of Natural Law were crucial in drafting the US Constitution. These seminal ideas were made known to document “framers” largely by way of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Commentaries represent the truest philosophic origins of America’s legal system. In these dissembling times of recurrent political manipulation, Blackstone’s work warrants [...]
Apartheid charged as crime against humanity for first time in South Africa
South Africa’s Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Tuesday made a monumental move in the attainment of justice for apartheid-era victims. In a revised indictment for the COSAS FOUR case, the DPP included apartheid as a crime against humanity for the first time. The United Nations General Assembly declared apartheid a crime against humanity in 1966. The Apartheid [...]
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….” -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Plus, ca’ change. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” In world politics, anarchy is an old and continuing story. Chaos is not. But what are the precise differences? And why do [...]
Second US federal prisoner executed in two days despite intellectual disability
Alfred Bourgeois, who had been on death row for 15 years, was executed by the US government Friday after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute application for a stay. He was the second federal prisoner to be executed by federal authorities in just two days. Both cases were surrounded by uncertainty. Bourgeois’s appeal claimed [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from six Muslim-majority countries...After a federal district court judge and a unanimous three-judge panel of...
Sweden court sentences man to life in prison for role in Rwanda genocide
A Swedish court sentenced a man to life in prison on Monday for taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The Stockholm District Court determined that Claver Berinkindi was guilty of genocide...
Newtown Families' Suit Against Gunmakers Will Likely End in Dismissal
JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas Johnson of the Fordham University School of Law discusses the recent suit filed by the families of the Newtown victims...Some of the families who survived the horror of the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting are suing the manufacturer...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jacob Huebert, of the Liberty Justice Center, discusses a new Illinois eavesdropping law and argues that the Illinois legislators should repeal the law as it violates constitutional principles and individual freedoms...For a few weeks in late 2014,...
International Law and the Uncertainty of Rights for LGBT People
JURIST Guest Columnist, Graeme Reid, of Human Rights Watch, discusses the weakening of LGBT rights in international law ...For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people the law is a paradox. The law can operate as an instrument of repression...
