Search Results for: 2016-03-30

The Utah Senate voted 20-9 on Tuesday in favor of a bill to repeal the death penalty. The Death Penalty Amendments bill would reorganize murder and homicide statutes as non capital offenses and give...

The Maryland Senate on Tuesday overrode a veto by Governor Larry Hogan to pass bill that will allow felons to vote before they complete parole or probation. Sixty percent of the Democrat-dominated Senate voted...

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the creation of political peace mission in Colombia to monitor the disarmament between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC)....

JURIST Guest Columnist Alyssa Lebron of St. John's University School of Law Class of 2016 is the seventh author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Lebron discusses the long-term effects...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Thieme Sanford of University of Washington School of Law discusses the birth and growth of Medicare and Medicaid. She argues that in this, their 50th year, health care's fraternal twins are coming more to resemble each...

Germany's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Friday requiring large companies to allocate 30 percent of non-executive board seats to women, after a survey found that women remain grossly under represented in big business. The survey...

Zambia's new president, Defense and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu, was sworn on Sunday after he was declared the winner of the presidential poll Saturday night. Lungu was a candidate for the Patriotic Front , the ruling...

Alex Kreit, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR) filed a lawsuit against the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) Wednesday requesting the...