Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr fired all of his American lawyers on Wednesday, days before he is scheduled to appear for arraignment before a US military commission . According to...

Constitutional gridlock continued in Ukraine on Thursday, as the country's parliament again failed to approve a bill that would set a new date for controversial parliamentary elections. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; JURIST news...

US immigration courts are inconsistent in granting asylum to applicants, according to a new study by three law professors to be published in the Stanford Law Review. The professors found that factors that contributed to the outcome of...

The Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand ordered the dissolution of the political party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Wednesday after finding that it committed electoral fraud during last year's annulled...

Former FBI Director William S. Sessions Wednesday applauded recent efforts to extend DNA testing, especially for the benefit of prisoners facing the death penalty. In a JURIST op-ed, Sessions said that a proposal by New York Gov....

Suspended Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday released to reporters a signed affidavit he had filed with the Supreme Court of Pakistan detailing how he was detained last March against his...

Lawyers for US Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the Secret Service to destroy data on who visited his official residence at the Naval Observatory, saying that the information was protected by the Presidential Records Act , according...

An Iranian appeals court has acquitted human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani of charges related to espionage after he spent seven months in prison, Soltani said Monday. According to Soltani, the appeals court held that there...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an investigation into a proposed purchase of advertising management technology company DoubleClick Inc. by Google Inc. for possible anti-trust violations, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Google...

Jordan's High Judiciary Board appointed Ihssan Barakat as Chief of the Court of First Instance Monday, marking the first time a woman will preside over a team of judges in the country. Barakat said that "this is...