Democrats going to court for GOP answers on New Hampshire phone jamming
Democrats will ask a federal judge Tuesday to order Republican Party and White House officials to answer questions in response to a civil lawsuit alleging voter fraud committed during the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming plot . During...
Ruling on petition by Kizza Besigye challenging the presidential election of 23 February 2006 in which President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was declared elected, Uganda Supreme Court, April 6, 2006.Text:The Petitioner, Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, who was one of the...
US House passes bill to limit campaign fundraising by 527 groups
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the 527 Reform Act of 2006 , legislation that would require non-profit political groups, called "527s" for the tax code section under which they...
JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that the debate over where to try ex-Liberian...
South Africa former deputy president takes stand in defense at rape trial
The defense case for former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened on Monday with testimony from Zuma about his role in the African National Congress (ANC) . Zuma's motion to dismiss the rape charges [JURIST...
Speaking Truth to Power: US International Lawyers at a Crossroads
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that at its 100th annual meeting this week in Washington, DC, the American Society of International Law is being called upon to take a stand on...
ID cards bill sent back to UK Commons for fourth time as constitutional crisis looms
A classic legislative tug-of-war between the UK House of Lords and House of Commons continued Monday as peers once again sent the controversial Identity Cards Bill back to MPs after a majority...
Uganda opposition leader questioned on possible election law violations
Police in Uganda JURIST news archive] have summoned opposition leader Kizza Besigye to question him about alleged electoral law violations during last month's elections . Besigye purportedly waved the lid of the ballot box at the...
A Death in The Hague: The Milosevic Trial and the Rule of Law
JURIST Guest Columnists Henry King, Jr., a former prosecutor for the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal now at Case Western Law School, and David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faris Sanabani, Publisher of the English-language Yemen Observer newspaper currently facing calls by Yemeni prosecutors for permanent shutdown, confiscation, and even the death penalty against its Chief Editor for republishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, explains...
