Colombia top court exonerates colonel for disappearances in 1985 siege
Colombia's Supreme Court exonerated a retired army colonel on Wednesday who had been found guilty of the forced disappearances of two people he escorted away from the 1985 Palace of Justice Siege, ordering the colonel's...
Patent Ownership Disclosure and Real Party-In-Interest Regulation
JURIST Guest Columnist Xiaoying Zhang of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law discusses how patent ownership disclosure should be regulated... On June 4, 2013, the White House issued five executive actions designed to increase the transparency of the patent...
A Sino-American Cyber Security Agreement: Crisis Composed of Danger and Opportunity?
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law discusses the latest cyber security agreement between China and the US... It is a longstanding fiction that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of elements that signify "danger"...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday issued a ruling in Heller v. District of Columbia , ultimately upholding six and striking down four controversial elements of the Firearms Registration...
The new Constitution of Nepal was approved by the Constituent Assembly of Nepal on Wednesday after years of debate. The original 2010 completion date was repeatedly delayed due to international and...
A spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lambert Mende, announced Wednesday that President Joseph Kabila signed parliament-approved legislation to keep elections on a timeline that will not violate the Constitution . Beginning in...
Federal judge halts use of lethal injection drugs in Mississippi
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking the use of two drugs for lethal injections. The order was issued in a phone...
Egypt court sentences 89 Muslim Brotherhood members to life imprisonment
An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday sentenced Mohamed Badie and 88 other Muslim Brotherhood members to life imprisonment for their role in a 2013 attack on a police station. First reported by Middle East News Agency (MENA),...
Burundi polls opened on Tuesday for the controversial election where President Pierre Nkurunziza is running for his third term. Nkurunziza's opponents have boycotted the election, claiming it is unconstitutional for a president to...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in four cases. The court will rule on Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. United States and decide whether the D.C. Circuit misapplied the...
