Former HP executive pleads guilty to revealing IBM trade secrets
A former vice president for Hewlett Packard (HP) pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft of trade secrets for giving HP protected information he obtained while working for IBM [corporate...
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Iraq has a long and proud legal tradition, and certainly boasts a large number of legal professionals who take their work very seriously...
Kosovo as Precedent and Pretext: New Debates and Old Lessons
JURIST Guest Columnist Timothy Waters of Indiana University School of Law Bloomington says that Kosovo's declaration of independence represents a problematic precedent in international law that may ironically bring us back to self-determination as the core historical and moral justification...
Angela C. Wu : "The Netherlands, seeking to address concerns about security and cultural integration, is in the final stages of banning the burqa in schools and government offices, with...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing money laundering charges, says it is increasingly clear that...
Some 8,000 Kenyans have been killed over the last five years as a result of a police crackdown on the outlawed Mungiki sect, according to the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic-Kenya (OFFLACK) . In a report [PDF...
Amnesty criticizes Palestinian factions for rights abuses in political violence
Amnesty International released a 58-page report Wednesday criticizing the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah , for political violence in the Gaza Strip and West Bank that has destroyed...
Mercury settles stock option backdating cases for record $117.5M
Mercury Interactive on Monday settled derivative lawsuits filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California regarding allegations of stock options backdating. The software company, acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) ...
Australia PM refuses to apologize over handling of Haneef terror case
Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused to apologize for the Australian government's handling of Dr. Mohammad Haneef Monday, saying that it had not "victimized" Haneef despite holding him as a terrorist suspect for 25...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang blasted a new human rights report released by the US Department of State as being inconsistent with "basic facts" Saturday, characterizing it as unsubstantiated and slanderous...
