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Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National Court on Wednesday jailed eight Catalan ministers by court order on charges...

Sleight of Hand in Florida's New Death Penalty: Requiring, But Not Requiring, Jury Unanimity JURIST Guest Columnist Chance Meyer of Shepard Broad College of Law,NOVA Southeastern University, discusses the Florida Supreme Court's recent death penalty decision in Hurst and its...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) police on Thursday arrested two former Bosnian Serb soldiers accused of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic were detained [WP...

The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court on Friday sentenced four former Bosnian Serb soldiers for their involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Franc Kos,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Damian Ugwu, Executive Director of the Social Justice & Advocacy Initiative, says that the recent bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria has ominous implications for a broad range of individual rights in the country...On November 29, 2011,...

The appellate division of the War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Friday sentenced Sefik Alic, a Muslim commander, to 10 years in prison, overturning his 2008 acquittal. The prosecutor appealed the original...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday dismissed the appeal against the imposition of a court-appointed lawyer by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ....

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Wednesday filed an appeal with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) challenging the imposition of a court-appointed lawyer ....

Judge Xaviere Simeoni on Friday ordered former French president Jacques Chirac to stand trial on charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds. While serving as mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, Chirac allegedly...

Beth Van Schaack : "The central question facing the Supreme Court in Boumediene was: to what extent does the privilege of the writ of...