South Korea court orders Japan steelmaker to compensate WWII slave laborers
The South Korean Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal to pay compensation to four Korean workers who were forced to work for the firm during WWII. Each plaintiff will be awarded $87,700 although only one, Lee Choon-Shik (aged 94), is still alive. In a press release, Nippon Steel declared [...]
South Korea court rules detention of prostitutes in 1960s and 70s illegal
The Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday ruled that the South Korean government had broken the law by detaining prostitutes serving American soldiers and forcefully treating them for venereal diseases. The court ordered the government to pay...
Criminalizing Visual Poverty—the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime
JURIST Guest Columnist Sara Rankin of Seattle University School of Law discusses the effects of criminalizing homelessness in the US...As a lawyer, I am particularly interested in how we take our impulses and fears and codify them into our laws...
After Texas: What's at Stake for the Rest of the Country in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
JURIST Guest Columnist B. Jessie Hill of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, discusses the newest Supreme Court abortion rights case...Only a few weeks remain in...
The Constitutional Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a law that punishes individual sex workers. The ruling came in response to a petition to overturn the anti-prostitution law, which was brought by a prostitute convicted under the...
South Korea and Japan agreed on Monday to a final resolution on the issue of "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War II. Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida admitted responsibility...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Hammer, of Wayne State University Law School, discusses the controversy surrounding Caitlyn Jenner and rights for transgender individuals...Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart...
HRW: Syria, Iraq governments fueling Islamic extremism and must reform
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released its annual World Report , in which it criticized the role of Middle Eastern governments in sustaining the Islamic State (IS). HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth credited much...
Increased Access to Emergency Contraception in Tummino is Good Policy and Good Precedent
Andrea Miller, University of Minnesota Law School, Class of 2015
Japan court orders government to disclose treaty with Korea on sex slavery
The Tokyo District Court ruled Wednesday that the Japanese government must disclose part of a 1965 treaty between Japan and South Korea regarding sexual slavery employed by Japan during wartime. The District Court ruled in...
