Search Results for: 2015-04-29

JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Catá Backer, of Pennsylvania State University discusses consequences of President elect Trump's rejection of the TTP ... The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its European twin, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), mean to provide...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amy St. John, manager at Earth's Healing, shares some professional experiences and personal opinions from her time spent working inside the marijuana industry...I have worked in the medical marijuana industry since 2013 in both Arizona and...

Three justices on the Israeli Supreme Court have been sued for voting in favor of authorizing the construction of Israel's wall around the West Bank, which the International Court of Justice found illegal [advisory opinion,...

UN Secretary-General-elect Antonio Guterres said while visiting Beijing on Monday that he wants UN peacekeepers to be better trained and more respectful of human rights. Guterres stressed the need "to make sure that there is an effective combination...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of Stetson University College of Law discusses how Kansas, Georgia and Alabama pushed forward with efforts to require additional proof of citizenship by new registrants, despite the Supreme Court decision on invalidating state's requirements on...

Legislators in Turkmenistan on Wednesday amended the nation's constitution to allow President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow , to remain in power indefinitely. Berdimuhamedow praised the amendment, which not only extended the presidential term by two...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday dismissed a 2014 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case against AT&T Mobile , which took issue with AT&T's disclosures regarding the reduction of...

A county judge ruled Friday that Kansas must count thousands of votes from people who registered without providing citizenship documents. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had imposed a rule that directed local election officials...

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to block Texas from enforcing its controversial voter identification law. Plaintiffs had filed an application with the Supreme Court last month, asking the court to vacate a...

The Constitutional Court of Colombia on Thursday legalized same-sex marriage. In a 6-3 decision , the court found that same-sex marriage does not violate the country's constitution . The decision comes just...