Search Results for: 2002-02-14

A court in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday sentenced former Rwandan mayor Onesphore Rwabukombe,to 14 years in prison for his role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide . Rwabukombe was convicted of ordering the April 11, 1994, massacre...

David Crane, Syracuse University College of Law

Spain's Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that will diminish the powers of Spanish courts to pursue cases of genocide and other crimes against humanity committed abroad. The bill ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) will pay the US government $614 million and improve company mortgage lending practices under a settlement announced Tuesday for claims it approved thousands of unqualified home mortgage loans for government insurance since...

Of the 139 states that signed the Rome Statute, 32 have not yet ratified the treaty. According to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties , a state that has signed but not ratified a treaty is obliged to...

Megan A. Fairlie, Florida International University College of Law

The French National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a new sexual harassment law that criminalizes the act, imposing a punishment of up to three years in jail. The new law comes three...

JURIST Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the Special Court for Sierra Leone must set a date to release its ruling on the war crimes charges against former Liberian president Charles Taylor so...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sasan Fayazmanesh, Professor Emeritus of Economics at California State University, Fresno, says that President Obama's latest sanctions against Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program are part of an escalating trend in US foreign policy that began...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by group of 10 congressmen alleging that US President Barack Obama violated Article I Section...