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Tunisia conducted its first free elections Sunday, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay emphasizing the importance of adherence to the rule of law as the country moves forward. The election for the new constituent...

Interim Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Monday that he has ordered an investigation into the death of former leader Muammar Gaddafi . He said that the National Transition Council has formed...

Libyan transitional Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril on Sunday declared the country's official liberation from the regime of former leader Muammar Gaddafi and set a schedule for establishing a new government. Jibril made...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that social media and networking have proven pivotal in the success of the Arab Spring protest movements in a manner that was previously unforeseen by commentators and scholars...The...

An alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir , Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the US, may violate the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents , which...

Two congressmen on Thursday introduced a joint resolution in each house of Congress to block a planned arms sale to Bahrain . Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) declared [press...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their efforts in promoting women's rights. Sirleaf, known as the "Iron Lady,"...

JURIST Contributing Editor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that despite the plethora of legal and cultural changes that have occurred in the US since September 11, 2001, international law remains the same as it...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says that the right to participate in government is a recognized aspiration in international law and that in the...

Ryan Suto, Syracuse University College of Law Class of 2013, is the President of the Syracuse chapter of the American Constitution Society and recently moderated a panel discussion on the issue of WikiLeaks and the Constitution. He writes on how...