The leaders of Pakistan's coalition government reached agreement in Dubai on Thursday on the details of a deal on restoring superior court judges removed in November under President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency , according to local media...
JURIST has been nominated in New York for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2008, and with online polls for the Webby People's Voice competition closing late on Thursday, May 1, we hope you'll support...
The US Justice Department told a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that abusive or humiliating interrogations of terror suspects ostensibly prohibited by the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on "outrages upon personal dignity"...
Opposing groups of Pakistani lawyers clashed with each other in the city of Karachi Wednesday, prompting widespread rioting that led to at least seven deaths. Lawyers supporting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf who gathered to protest the Tuesday lawyers' beating...
Letter on the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence J.M. McConnell, April 2, 2008 ....
PKK v Council, European Court of First Instance, April 3, 2008 [ruled that the Council of the European Union improperly listed the militant Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) on its list of terrorist organizations in 2002 because it failed to state...
Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al., International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Trial Chamber, April 3, 2008 . Read the full text...
Kansas funeral privacy act, signed into law by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, April 3, 2008 . Read the full text of law . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...
Re; Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States, Memorandum for William Haynes II, US Department of Justice, March 14, 2003 [memo by deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo finding that military interrogators could employ a wide...
Tadao Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen, European Court of Justice, April 1, 2008 . Read the full text of...