Search Results for: 2007-03-09

“The masses have followed the magicians again and again…Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in clear awareness of what was at stake.” – Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952) On absolutely all matters of existential survival, individual or collective, candor is indispensable. In connection with [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren A. Rousseau of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School discusses the impact that the onslaught of litigation against the pharmaceutical industry could have on the opioid epidemic...According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over...

JURIST Guest Columnist Moien Odeh of the Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection provides a critical analysis of recent Israeli legislative efforts to enlarge the city limits of Jerusalem ... Introduction In 2017, two bills were introduced from the Israeli...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday warned Syria that air strikes, shelling and use of toxic agents in Eastern Ghouta likely...

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga , whose campaign against the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared unsuccessful after a countrywide election last month by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Committee (IEBC) , has issued a statement...

South Africa's highest court heard arguments on Monday from opposition parties who demanded that the motion of no-confidence against President Jacob Zuma be voted on using a secret ballot. Zuma, who has been...

The judge presiding over the USS Cole bombing case, US Air Force Col. Vance Spath, said Wednesday that he plans to set a 2018 trial date for the case. The judge stated that he anticipates that it will...

JURIST Guest Columnist Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile of the University of Arkansas School of Law discusses the implications of massive agribusiness mergers in relation to eradicating world hunger ...Cross-border and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and strategic alliances are...

New York City on Monday agreed to settle a 2010 lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for issuing summonses without legal justification. The lawsuit regards approximately 900,000 summonses...

An Israeli parole board ruled Sunday that former president Moshe Katsav will be released after serving five years of his seven-year sentence for rape. After failing earlier this year to gain release, Katsav is...