Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, Feb. 21.The US Senate and US House are in recess today for the President's Day holiday. Both will resume their sessions...

Spanish television is reporting that a clear majority of Spanish voters who turned out in Sunday's referendum on the European Union constitution voted in favor of ratification. Exit polls are showing that over 78% voted...

Israel's Cabinet approved the government's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip Sunday, the first time an Israeli government has decided to dismantle Jewish settlements on land claimed by Palestinians. Also Sunday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signed an order...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers submitted his letter of resignation to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Sunday, citing a lack of confidence in him due to allegations of sexual harassment . Saying that the sexual...

The legal battle over Terri Schiavo could wrap up this week if either Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeals or the Pinellas Circuit Court act to end appeals in the dispute over the fate of the brain-damaged...

The Economic Community of West African States has announced that member countries will impose sanctions against Togo as world pressure mounts for Togo to hold democratic elections. Faure Gnassingbe was appointed president on February...

The UN General Assembly's legal committee has adopted a non-binding resolution against all forms of human cloning, including techniques used in stem cell research. After several days of debate , the committee voted 71-35, with 43...

A federal judge has delayed the start of the class-action fraud suit against WorldCom until March 17, so that lawyers can interview witnesses from former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers fraud trial after it...

An Arabic translator who took computer disks full of classified documents out of the Guantanamo Bay naval base was sentenced Friday to 20 months in prison by the US District Court for the District of...

Log of (and links to) CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, February 16, 2005 [suggesting that...