{JURIST] Taiwanese leaders have condemned the proposed Chinese "anti-secession" law outlined Tuesday at a meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing. The law, the full draft of which has still not been made public, endorses "non-peaceful means" of reunification in the event that peaceful processes fail. Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu said that the [...]

FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested to the House Appropriations Committee in testimony Tuesday that terror suspects be legally prohibited from buying guns. Under current federal regulatory practice, highlighted yesterday in a new Government Accountability Office report , persons suspected of links to terror groups are not included among the categories of persons banned from buying [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered additional concessions on the British government's proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill Wednesday after the legislation came back from the upper chamber House of Lords riddled with amendments designed to protect traditional civil liberties against potentially-arbitrary state action. Changes called for by the Lords included the issuance of all so-called [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that not only does the President have the authority to direct states to comply with a decision of the International Court of Justice, but in fact he has the obligation to do so. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in March, [...]

Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned yesterday as Kosovo prime minister after being indicted for war crimes in connection with his activities while a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s, flew to the Hague Wednesday on a German military plane to face trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [...]

United Nations Declaration on Human Cloing, adopted by resolution of the UN General Assembly, March 8, 2005. Read the full text of the Declaration prefaced with explanatory remarks. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Log of (and links to) Army CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 4, 2005 . Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A bill that would make consumers satisfy a series of requirements before being permitted to cancel their debts through bankruptcy is close to passage in the US Senate. On Tuesday the Senate killed what some Republicans called a "poisoned pill" – a proposed Democratic amendment that would have prohibited anti-abortion protestors and other engaged in [...]

Initial reactions by Senators on both sides of the aisle prompted speculation Tuesday that Monday's nomination of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton to be the new US ambassador to the UN could be problematic, or at least controversial. Senior Democrats such as Senator Joseph Biden and former Democratic presidential challenger Senator John Kerry expressed "surprise" [...]

The US has indicated in a Supreme Court filing that it has asked the state of Texas to rehear the cases of 51 Mexicans whose death sentences were recently deemed improper by the International Court of Justice as the accused had been denied access to help from their consulates as guaranteed by the 1963 Vienna [...]