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JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that an International Criminal Court finding of genocide in Sudan could change negative American attitudes towards the new Hague tribunal... Genocide may yet be found to have occurred...

Report by Mr. Alvaro Gil-Robles, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, June 8, 2005 . Excerpt:The United Kingdom has not been immune, however, to a tendency increasingly discernable across Europe...

The Santiago Appeals Court, the intermediate appellate jurisdiction in Chile, stripped former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity Tuesday so he can face charges of tax fraud in connection with as much as $17 million...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying documents related to the Enron collapse, citing faulty jury instructions. According to the Court, the instructions failed to convey properly the elements of...

A UK lawyer representing three Westerners allegedly tortured in a Saudi Arabian prison said Tuesday that her firm would attempt to seize Saudi assets in Britain, including those of Saudi Arabian Airlines, as reparation for the men's mistreatment and...

The investigations subcommittee of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported Thursday that British Member of Parliament George Galloway and French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ...

Mexican President Vicente Fox announced in a nationwide TV broadcast Wednesday night that he had accepted the resignation of Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo De La Concha. De La Concha had been at...

Mexico City mayor Lopez Obrador returned to work Monday despite government contentions that that was illegal and that he had in fact lost his job after the country's Congress lifted his immunity from prosecution earlier...

Prosecutors have finally charged Mexico City's popular mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with abuse of authority, a move that could threaten Obrador's run for president. A week after President Vicente Fox considered - then...

Citing allegedly unfair rulings by a US District Court judge Barbara Jones, former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted in March of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud that led to the telecommunications giant's downfall,...