Federal appeals court dismisses suit over Armenian genocide curriculum
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday unanimously dismissed a lawsuit challenging the exclusion of materials questioning the Armenian genocide from a school...
The African Union and the International Criminal Court: The Summer of Our Discontent(s)
JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that unless the AU and the ICC establish a proper dialogue, the logic of mutual gain for the ICC and Africa is at a risk of...
The US Senate on Thursday voted 63-37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court . The vote fell largely along party lines, with only one Democrat voting...
The US Senate on Tuesday heard final statements on the confirmation of US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan . Most Senate Republicans oppose her confirmation, but have chosen not to...
ISRAEL: Judicial Appointments, Standing and Political Questions
Jonathan Cohen, Pitt Law '12, studied in Jerusalem as part of a program hosted by the Touro College Law Center and sponsored by Pitt's Center for International Legal Education. He writes about the differences between Israel and the United States...
Senate stalemate indicates larger problems in campaign finance reform
Nick Nyhart : "With just four Republican Senators in play on the DISCLOSE Act its failure to reach closure Wednesday was no surprise. The original intent of the legislation was to blunt the impact of the...
UN rights body urges Israel to allow international inquiry into flotilla raid
The UN Human Rights Committee on Friday called on Israel to cooperate with an international inquiry into the May flotilla incident , in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into law a bill that will grant controversial new powers to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Federation's successor to the...
The Serbian National Assembly on Monday voted 192-26 to pass a resolution that Serbia would never recognize Kosovo as an independent nation. The declaration comes a week after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official...
JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that while the recent opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is likely to be an important point...
