Chinese-American sentenced to 15 years following espionage conviction
Former Boeing engineer Dongfan "Greg" Chung was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison, following his July 2009 conviction under the 1996 Economic Espionage Act . Chung, a native of China, was convicted by...
US lawmakers introduce bill to repeal Defense of Marriage Act
Ninety members of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Signed by former president Bill Clinton [official...
Strong-arm Rule or Rule of Law? Prospects for Legal Reform in Russia
JURIST Guest Columnist Pamela A. Jordan, an associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) who writes on politics and human rights developments in Russia, says that the recent murder of Chechnya human rights activist Natalia Estemirova may...
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Robbie Sabel of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel, says that many of the international law issues in the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah come down to matters of common sense... As...
US v. Kaczynski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 21, 2005 [ruling ordering the US government to sell the writings and other materials seized from the home of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski in 1996 and use the...
