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The US Senate on Thursday ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime , which is intended to improve information- and evidence-sharing between national governments to prevent crimes on the Internet. The convention has been signed by 38 European...

A federal judge in Georgia has certified a class of more than 10,000 registered sex offenders living in Georgia that would be subject to a new state law barring them from living or working within 1,000 feet...

JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law says that President Bush's veto of stem cell research legislation is an abuse of his constitutional authority antithetical to the rulings of the US Supreme Court... For...

A bill that would set up a nationwide online database of sex offenders' homes and workplaces is awaiting President Bush's approval following passage Tuesday by the US House. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 [HR...

Democrats in the US Senate are proposing additional exemptions for a bill that would punish those who help a minor cross state lines to receive an abortion without parental consent or notification. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)...

The UN Security Council on Monday called for renewed efforts to protect children in areas of armed conflict to build on progress in implementing Resolution 1612 , which requires international monitoring of children's rights...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Friday made his first court appearance in The Hague since leaving Sierra Leone last month. Taylor's lawyer Karim Khan told the Special Court for Sierra Leone...

A Dutch court on Monday rejected a request to ban a political party that wants to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12, saying "the freedom to set up a political party" can be viewed as...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric M. Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Hudson v. Michigan is a warning that the Fourth Amendment may be on the verge of a judicial trivialization...

France intends to grant residency papers to thousands of immigrant families with children in French schools, government officials said Thursday. Many children and their parents faced deportation at the end of the French school year after a deportation moratorium...