US execution of Mexican national ruling [ICJ] News
US execution of Mexican national ruling [ICJ]

Mexico v. United States of America, International Court of Justice, January 19, 2009 [ruling that the United States violated the ICJ's order when the state of Texas executed Jose Ernesto Medellin Rojas]. Read the full text of the judgment [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.