Search Results for: 2015-04-07

Portugal's Constitutional Court struck down an austerity measure Thursday that would have made it easier for the government to lay off civil servants. The revised law applied to government employees...

Nick Byrne, University of North Carolina School of Law

Liz Rinehart, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Protests in Syria began as candlelight vigils in early February 2011, a sympathetic response to the escalating rebellion in Egypt. HRW released the first reports of violence against demonstrators on February 9, 2011, and stated that Syrian activists were urging...

Restrictions on Public Funding of Abortion Although the Supreme Court guaranteed women's constitutional right to have medical access to abortion in Roe, Congress has increasingly restricted federal funding of abortion services, most notably through the Hyde Amendment. Passed as part...

Maxwell Slackman, George Mason University School of Law

Andrea Miller, University of Minnesota Law School, Class of 2015

The High Court of England and Wales on Tuesday struck down a petition calling for an independent inquiry into the killing of 24 Malaysian rubber plantation workers by British troops in 1948. The incident occurred during the Malayan...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Affordable Care Act will have lasting effects not only for the nation's health care system, but also for...

The State Duma , the lower house of the Russian parliament, on Tuesday ratified the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession package protocol , clearing the way for Russia's membership in the global trading...