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Within hours of the court-appointed deadline, leaders of the flight attendants union have reached a tentative settlement with bankrupt Northwest Airlines (NWA) , after the two sides spent over 24 straight hours at the negotiating table...

Several Chinese companies have reportedly donated more than $315,000 to help pay for lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes allegedly committed by Japanese troops during their occupation of part of China during World War II....

Officials from the joint UN-Cambodia Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal being set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Thursday that the first trials should begin in 2007. Though no...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Craig Etcheson, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (2005) and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, says the time has come for the United States...

A Tokyo High Court judge on Wednesday refused to overturn a lower court decision that denied compensation for unpaid wages for a group of South Koreans who were forced to work at a Japanese steel mill during WWII. Relatives...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eileen Gauna of Southwestern University School of Law. now visiting at the University of New Mexico, says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster is a classic instance of environmental injustice, the longstanding pattern whereby people of color and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey McFarlane of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that concern over the protection of "property rights" in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London has obscured larger questions...

The UN Special Representative to the Democratic Republic of Congo William Swing said in a press conference Thursday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for five leaders of the...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to improve its oversight of the mutual funds industry. The report...

The Chief of the US Army National Guard Bureau said Thursday in Washington that the National Guard was deploying over 4000 military police to support civilian law enforcement officers around New Orleans and elsewhere in the aftermath...