Search Results for: 2014-01-27

The International Criminal Court (ICC) held the first hearing in the case against Mahamat Saïd Abdel Kani on Thursday and Friday. Saïd is believed to be a former commander of the Séléka, a primarily-Muslim coalition of armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR). CAR officials surrendered Saïd to the ICC on January 24. Saïd [...]

“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 [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a group of Tennessee voters regarding Amendment 1 to the state’s constitution, a 2014 ballot measure that eliminated the right to an abortion from the document. The petitioners argued that the vote counting method was fundamentally unfair and skewed the voting in support [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health......

JURIST Guest Columnist Andrew Wright of the Savannah Law School discusses President Trump's newly revised travel ban...On September 24th, President Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation revising the entry suspensions and restrictions outlined in Executive Order 13780, issued March 6,...

Ricardo Martinelli , the president of Panama from 2009 to 2014, was arrested in Coral Gables, Florida on Monday, according to the US Embassy in Panama . The arrest is the result of an...

JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher N. Lasch of the University of Denver discusses Attorney General Sessions' position on sanctuary cities ... As JURIST previously reported, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has threatened to cut Department of Justice funding to so-called "sanctuary" cities....

In a joint letter to European Union Commissioner of Migration, Human Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopolous on Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee expressed their concern regarding Hungary's proposed migration...

France published a decree on Thursday which, as of Friday, prohibits businesses from offering unlimited soft drinks. The decree, approved in 2015 by the French Parliament in an effort to reduce the...

JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming "repeal and replace" strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring...