The Chinese government paper China Daily Wednesday reported that the number of Chinese couples seeking a divorce in 2004 rose to 1.6 million, a dramatic increase over previous years attributed to a 2003 law reform that dropped...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab, a traditional Muslim gown, was unlawful because the school denied 16-year-old Shabina Begum the right...

Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani and his son, lawyer Aryan Barwez al-Merwani, both of whom were working with the Iraqi Special Tribunal were assassinated late Tuesday as they were exiting their Baghdad home. In...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, March 2.The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first...

Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc., et al. v. EPA, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Circuit Judge Katzmann, February 28, 2005 [ruling that the regulations which took effect in February 2003 were not adequate to ensure that large farms...

Arce, et al. v. Garcia, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Circuit Judge Tjoflat, February 28, 2005 [ruling reversing a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals for allegedly allowing torture and other abuses...

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, et al. v. Leavitt, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Breyer, March 1, 2005 [ruling that the US government was liable for agreements to cover contract costs for several Indian tribes despite arguments that Congress...

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries 2004, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, March 1, 2005 . Read the full text of the...

Late reports from Baghdad say that US officials were incorrect in initially saying that Iraqi Special Tribunal judge Raid Juhi al-Saadi had been assassinated Tuesday, and that the judge actually killed was another man - as yet unnamed -...

FOX News is reporting that the Iraqi Special Tribunal judge overseeing the lagal proceedings against Saddam Hussein has been assassinated. Raid Juhi al-Saadi,35, was reportedly gunned down outside his home in Baghdad. He had already survived several...