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US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing whether any criminal or civil laws were violated by BP resulting in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ....

JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that climate change will ravage the African continent if its leaders do not urgently assert their peoples' rights... Africa is the richest continent in...

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday establishing an independent commission to investigate offshore drilling and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The National...

DC-based consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch (FWW) filed suit in a US district court Monday against the US Department of Interior (DOI) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for an injunction...

A Paris judge has charged French oil company Total with bribery and complicity in connection with a scandal involving the UN's Iraq Oil-for-Food program , the company's lawyer confirmed Tuesday. Total announced the...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that 22 individuals were indicted for violating federal bribery laws in an effort to obtain foreign business contracts. An undercover operation conducted by the FBI...

Lyric Thompson : "Last week Sudan celebrated an ironic anniversary. In name only, it was the fifth anniversary of peace - specifically, the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA), the official armistice signed to end one of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Maffai of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies says that to prevent governments from hiring private military contractors to dodge their international human rights obligations, lawmakers in countries such as the US must ensure that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Kattan of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, says that Israel's Gaza offensive cannot be legally justified by any right of self-defense and instead constitutes aggression...

A French court released a bank account belonging to Russian news agency RIA Novosti Friday. The account was frozen in January , along with other accounts belonging to several Russian state organizations. The court ruled that...