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As regions of the world grapple with the devastating impacts of climate change, Kenya’s Climate Change Amendment Act stands as landmark legislation that shifts the trajectory of the nation’s commitment to climate justice. The amendment serves as a comprehensive and forward-looking response to the escalating climate crisis. The Act introduces innovative provisions aimed at aligning [...]

Academicians, lawyers, elections officials, pundits and politicians are presently ensconced in the problem of Donald Trump’s continuing constitutional qualification for presidential office. Although he plainly meets Article II of the United States Constitution’s three qualifications – at least 35 years old, natural born citizen, sufficient residence in the United States – Trump arguably runs afoul [...]

The Supreme Court of Myanmar dismissed special motions for appeal Friday regarding former State Counsellor and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi’s six corruption convictions, according to Bloomberg News and the Associated Press. Suu Kyi’s corruption convictions include violations of the Natural Disaster Management Law, the Communication Law and section 505(b) of the Myanmar Penal [...]

A federal judge in Washington DC rejected former US President Donald Trump’s request that she recuse herself from his pending criminal case on Wednesday. Trump sought to remove US District Judge Tanya Chutkan from the case earlier this month based on comments she previously made during the sentencing of several convicted rioters from the January [...]

The UK High Court began hearing on Wednesday 16 legal challenges, filed mostly by victims’ families, against the recently enacted Northern Ireland (Troubles & Reconciliation) Act. The act, which grants amnesty to former soldiers and militants involved in an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, became law on Tuesday when it received [...]

Nine California lawmakers sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta requesting that his office seek an official court opinion as to whether Donald Trump’s current 2024 presidential run is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, which prevents those who have committed “insurrection or rebellion” against the US while in office from seeking office again. [...]

A US federal district court on Friday denied former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request to remove two Georgia state criminal charges to federal court. Meadows asked to transfer his charges to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1). The statute allows a US federal officer acting under duties of their office [...]

Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro was found guilty on Thursday of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. This conviction, a result of Navarro’s refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, makes him the second senior official from the Trump administration, after former White [...]

“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 [...]

Lewis A. Kaplan, US District Judge for the Southern District of New York, ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, citing a ruling from earlier this year and saying that the jury in an upcoming trial will only need to determine how much money [...]