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In response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians, Israel mounted Operation Swords of Iron. Although international law allows for certain limited uses of insurgent force, including uses directed toward “self-determination,” these residual allowances do not include any rights of indiscriminate violence or of deliberate attacks on noncombatants. “Revenge,” of course, is [...]

President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Shawn Fain filed a complaint Thursday against Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), alleging he threatened workers’ ability to strike in violation of US federal labor law. UAW members have been on strike against three major automakers in the US—including Ford, Stellantis and General Motors—for about a week over pay and [...]

“Each state is expected, perpetually, to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon the offenses against that universal law.” William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (Book 4) After January 6, 2021, it was disclosed by the special investigating committee of the [...]

Labor strikes, such as The Screen Actors’ Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike, have permeated the news. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 80,700 workers were involved in major strike activity in 2021, and that number increased to 120,600 in 2022.  2023 has already seen more workers [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel.  On Monday, July 24th, a highly controversial bill curtailing the reasonableness doctrine was passed in [...]

Sir Robert Buckland KC MP, a prominent figure in the UK’s legal landscape, has dedicated his career to upholding the Rule of Law. His journey began as a barrister and door tenant at Foundry Chambers, where he demonstrated his commitment to justice. In May 2010, he embarked on a new chapter by entering Parliament. Since [...]

A three-member International Criminal Court (ICC) panel authorized the ICC prosecutor’s office to continue its crimes against humanity investigation in Venezuela on Tuesday over Venezuela’s objections. Judges Péter Kovács, Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou, and María del Socorro Flores Lier held that the domestic Venezuelan investigation into the crimes does not have a sufficiently wide scope, [...]

The US Supreme Court held Thursday that a local union must litigate a property damage dispute in state court, as opposed to appearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the court found that federal labor law, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), did not preempt [...]

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Monday that Starbucks violated federal labor laws by firing two workers who were planning to organize a union at a Philadelphia store in 2020. The NLRB upheld the ruling of an administrative law judge which found that, in 2019 and 2020, Starbucks took illegal actions when it [...]

The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) invited Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz to testify on March 9 regarding his company’s compliance with federal labor laws, according to a letter released by Senator and Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday. The invitation follows a wave of unionization amid unfair [...]