Memorandum ordering New York state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages legal performed outside of New York, New York Governor's Office May 14, 2008. Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Draft treaty to ban the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster munitions as agreed at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, May 28, 2008. Read the full text of the draft treaty . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

PHS Community Services Society v. Attorney General of Canada, Supreme Court of British Columbia, May 27, 2008 [holding that Canadian laws on drug possession and trafficking are unconstitutional, and granting a one-year extension to Vancouver's "safe injection site" program for...

Amnesty International Report 2008: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, May 28, 2008 [condemning the US and other Western democratic states for their attempts to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights in their efforts to...

Riley v. Kennedy, US Supreme Court, May 27, 2008 [holding that returning to a previous election law when a new one was struck down by the Supreme Court of Alabama was not a violation of the Voter Rights Act, which...

CBOCS West v. Humphries, US Supreme Court, May, 27, 2008 . Read the full text...

Gomez-Perez v. Potter, US Supreme Court, May 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's...

Arrest warrant for former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in connection with war crimes and acts of genocide allegedly committed in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court, unsealed May 23, 2008. Read the full text of...

Case Concerning Soverignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), International Court of Justice, May 23, 2008 [holding that a small, uninhabited island on which Singapore operates a light beacon does belong to the country, ending...

Minister of Justice v. Omar Khadr, Supreme Court of Canada, May 23, 2008 [holding that Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay military prison, has a constitutional right to see confidential documents compiled by Canadian...