Search Results for: 2013-04-11

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday began her first official visit to Kenya with a statement that the ICC will not delay the scheduled trial of four Kenyans...

The Constitutional Council of France on Friday rejected a challenge to the bullfighting exception contained in the animal cruelty provisions of the country's criminal code. Article 521-1 of the Criminal Code provides for two...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jesse Oppenheim, Brooklyn Law School Class of 2013, offers legal context to Archbishop Desmond Tutu's recent opinion in The Observer...On August 28, word leaked out that Archbishop Desmond Tutu had pulled out of an international summit in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ryan Suto, Syracuse University College of Law Class of 2013, discusses how the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry acts as a method of rule-of-law in post-conflict resolution and acknowledges its limitations...On February 14, 2011, Bahrain joined the...

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda on Monday filed an updated version of the charges against the four defendants in the two cases stemming from the 2007 Kenyan post-election violence [JURIST...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court's denial of motion submitted by former Illinois governor George Ryan seeking his release from prison. Ryan argued...

The Court of Appeals in Kenya on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to set the date of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections for March 4, 2013. Four of the five judges sitting for the Court of Appeals,...

The UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Kenya to investigate all cases related to the 2007 post-election violence in order to avoid impunity. The OHCHR expressed concern that the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Angela Perone, Staff Attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argues that there has been a drastic change in public opinion in favor of same-sex marriage and that courts are more willing to recognize marriage equality...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday set the trial dates for two Kenyan post-election violence cases for next April. The trial of former Kenyan minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang will begin...