Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, January 17.Today is Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday in the United States. Federal and state courts are closed in observance. The...

Newdow v. Bush, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge John Bates, January 14, 2005 [rejecting atheist Michael Newdow's challenge to the inclusion of prayers by invited clergy -- in the form of an invocation and benediction...

German lawmakers this weekend proposed that EU justice ministers consider at their next meeting a Europe-wide ban on display of Nazi insignia. The call came in response to outrage after Britain's Prince Harry...

Iraqis reacting Sunday to Saturday's sentencing of US Army Spc. Charles Graner for abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad were mostly critical of his ten year sentence, five years short of the legal maximum....

The first Kuwaiti to be freed from the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay arrived home in Kuwait Sunday, where he was taken into custody for questioning. Nasser al-Mutairi ,...

The US Sunday released approximately 80 Afghan detainees from custody at Bagram airbase north of Kabul and delivered them to the Afghan Supreme Court, where officials put them on buses home. The detainees were taken in after...

Thousands of Russians, many of them pensioners, marched in several major cities Saturday continuing four days week of protests against the Putin government's repeal of a Soviet-era social benefits law and its replacement by a program of minimal monthly...

A military jury at Fort Hood, Texas, has sentenced Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. to 10 years in prison for abuses committed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Earlier Saturday Graner took...

Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission resigned en masse Saturday, claiming that they had been improperly pressured to change procedures in the midst of the January 9th presidential vote. Senior commission officials claimed that campaign and...

Following up on a JURIST report from Thursday, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said Saturday she won't respond to a court summons from an Iranian Revolutionary Court in spite of the...