Texas "Bathroom Bill" Offers Up More of the Same False, Tired Anti-LGBT Arguments
JURIST Guest Columnist Dara Purvis of Penn State Law discusses some deficiencies of a recent Texas bill resembling North Carolina's "HB2"...In January, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick introduced Senate Bill 6 (SB6), another so-called "bathroom bill" aimed at preventing transgender...
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....
Thousands of people in Belarus on Wednesday gathered to protest a labor law that fines people if they do not work enough days during the year. President Alexander Lukashenko enacted Ordinance No. 3 ...
Bosnia asks Hague court to review ruling clearing Serbia of genocide
The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) formally asked the International Court of Justice Thursday to review a 2007 ruling clearing Serbia of genocide during their 1990 civil war. President Izetbegovic of the President...
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Ohio's lethal injection protocol. The protocol, which uses three drugs, was rejected as the sedative midazolam was deemed insufficiently humane. The sedative has been used in numerous states that experienced problematic executions....
A court in South Korea ruled Thursday that a Buddhist temple located in the nation may keep a statue taken from Japan in 2012. The statue of Buddha was one of two artifacts stolen from a Japanese temple...
Saudi citizen receives 7-year sentence for insulting Twitter post
Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Riyadh on Monday handed down a seven-year sentence to a Saudi citizen as well as numerous other punitive measures for a Twitter post the court deemed insulting to...
China's New Cybersecurity Law is a Call to Action for Congress
JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the effects of a new Chinese cybersecurity law and the need for response by the US Congress...China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress...
Articles 5 through 20 of the Rome Statute govern the jurisdiction of the ICC. There are four major factors to consider when assessing the court's jurisdiction. First, the specific crime committed has to fit the definition of one of the...
Regaining Trust: How and Why America Should Compete for Foreign Internet Consumers
Maxwell Slackman, George Mason University School of Law
