Kosovo government calls for new election following no confidence vote
Kosovo's government lost a no confidence on Wednesday. In a 78-34 vote , the Kosovo Assembly adopted a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Isa Mustafa's coalition government. Within hours of the vote,...
ICJ Rejects Bosnia & Herzegovina's Request of the Revision of 2007 Judgment
JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija, an LLM student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses the recent ICJ response to Bosnia and Herzegovina's request for a revised judgment from its 2007 lawsuit against Serbia regarding the application of...
Two members of the Montenegrin parliament were stripped of their immunity Wednesday after facing accusations of involvement with an attempted coup. The lawmakers, Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic, are part of the Democratic Front (DF), a pro-Russian group...
Montenegro parliament moves against members connected to coup
The Parliament of Montenegro on Monday provisionally approved a motion requesting that immunity be lifted for two officials possibly involved in an attempted coup last October. The motion, raised by Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the implications of revising a lawsuit between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia...According to the former prosecutor of The Hague International Criminal Court...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jean-Marie Kamatali of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law discusses the benefits of investigating French officials' role in the Rwanda Genocide...On November 29th the Prosecutor General of Rwanda released a statement announcing the start of a...
Montenegro prosecutor accuses Russia nationalists of attempted coup
Milivoje Katnic, Montenegro's Chief Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime, on Sunday, accused a group Russian nationalists of attempting to stage a coup aimed at overthrowing the government on election day. On October 16, a group of 20 Serbian...
Two of three Guantanamo Bay detainees scheduled for release boarded a plane for transfer on Wednesday while the third detainee turned down the opportunity. Though the two released detainees were natives of Egypt and Yemen, they were resettled in...
Arizona passes law requiring high school students to pass citizenship test
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday signed legislation that will require all Arizona High School students to take and pass the US Citizenship test before they are able to graduate, beginning in the 2016-17 school year. Supporters...
The Balkans is a region in southern Europe that stretches from Croatia to Bulgaria and derives its names from the Balkan Mountains. The region was invaded in the 14th century by the Ottoman Empire, which ruled for nearly 500 years....
