Search Results for: 2013-12-18

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...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anna Heatherington, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the fourth entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Heatherington...

Fiji's military ruler, Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama announced Sunday that the nation's state of emergency laws will be lifted this week to facilitate a nationwide consultation process for a new constitution. The announcement was cautiously...

Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was indicted on Wednesday for corruption. The country's Bureau for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) alleges Sanader received a pay-off of more than 3.6...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Tuesday upheld the convictions of former Illinois governor George Ryan , refusing his request for early release. In September,...

Former Illinois governor George Ryan on Tuesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois asking the judge to vacate his prison sentence, following a recent US...

Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, writes on the detention of Peter Erlinder, law professor and defense counsel at the ICTR, in light of her recent visit to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda... In a recent piece for JURIST Dateline,...