Second Circuit allows CIA to withhold interrogation documents
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) do not have to release records pertaining to CIA...
JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Bochenek, Director of Law & Policy for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and Kyle Knight, a Fulbright Scholar, say that Nepal's recognition of a third gender is an important fundamental right and the key to...
Chevron officials to face criminal charges in Brazil for oil spill: report
Brazil prosecutors plan to file criminal charges, in addition to the $11 billion civil suit, against Chevron officials for the 2,400 barrel oil spill off the coast of Brazil in the Campos Basin in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that the recent decisions in EU case law shows a trend towards viewing intellectual property as a way to...
Lawyers representing women who claimed discrimination by Wal-Mart filed an amended lawsuit Thursday narrowing their claims to California stores of the retail giant. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter on Friday urged reforms to legal systems to fight hunger and promote the right to food. The UN High-Level Task...
Rights groups urge Alabama to desegregate HIV-positive prisoners
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to end prison segregation based on HIV status . The ACLU and HRW...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...
Netherlands terror prosecutions rarely result in convictions: report
Of 113 terrorism cases in the Netherlands between September 11, 2001 and 2008, only 27 have led to convictions according to a report Thursday in the NRC Handelsblad . The report states that...
ICJ denies Belgium request to force extraditon of Chad ex-president Habre
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday denied Belgium's request to compel Senegal to extradite former Chadian president Hissene Habre . Belgium had accused Senegal of violating international law, including Article 7 of...
