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The United States has written the blueprints for a new constitution in Bosnia that aims to create a more centrally governed parliamentary democracy, the Guardian reported Thursday. The text is the result of seven months...

JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the trial of Saddam Hussein must not only do justice, but show that justice is done, and wonders whether the relatively-inexperienced jurists of...

China has warned the UN against abusing a new international right to intervene to protect those threatened by genocide or war crimes agreed to last week at a UN summit. Chinese Foreign Minister Li...

A Bosnian court created to ease the caseload of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia opened its first trial Wednesday against war crimes suspect Boban Simsic, a member of a Serb paramilitary...

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Sredoje Lukic, indicted in 2000 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia surrendered to Serb authorities in Bosnia Tuesday. Lukic is charged with cruel and inhumane acts against non-Serbs,...

After his arrest in Buenos Aires earlier this week, Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic agreed Tuesday to be extradited and face new charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic may be able to serve his expected prison sentence in Russia close to where his wife lives, according to a plan being supported by officials in the US and...

Former Bosnian Croat soldier Miroslav Bralo, on trial for war crime charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on...

A Serbian war crimes court Friday convicted and sentenced four former members of the Avengers parliamentary group to prison terms of fifteen to twenty years for their involvement in the 1992 abduction and murder of 16 Muslim men and...

A former Yugoslav army general testifying Monday on behalf of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic denied that the former leader and Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and suggested it did not...