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Mexican authorities confirmed Thursday that they recovered two bodies from the Rio Grande. Authorities recovered one of the bodies, a Mexican national, from buoys recently floated by Texas in an effort to slow border crossings from Mexico. The second body, a Honduran national, was recovered further upstream, away from the buoys. The incidents have renewed [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Interim Attorney General Angela Colmenero on Thursday over the legality of Texas deploying floating barriers in the Rio Grande. The letter cites several violations of federal law and raises other concerns over the barriers. [...]

The Western Australia Parliamentary Inquiry Thursday handed down a final report titled Enough is Enough from its inquiry into sexual harassment against women in the fly-in fly-out (FIFO) mining industry. The report was produced by the Community Development and Justice Standing Committee, a five-member state parliamentary committee with a mandate of looking at the existing workplace [...]

As we come closer to the opening of the Winter Olympiad in Beijing, China, a peoples in Western China is being destroyed “in whole or in part.” The world will assemble in the name of sport ignoring what is happening a few hundred miles away. It is a state-sponsored genocide by the very nation that [...]

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso Thursday extended the country’s state of emergency by 30 days to fight drug consumption and trafficking. The decree is allegedly an attempt to control the insecurity generated by drug-related crimes and re-establish peaceful co-existence and public order. It provides for the mobilization of military forces in certain provinces to assist the [...]

After postings on several listservs many of the pieces written here on JURIST and other seemingly relevant information for legal education, one of us was contacted by the listserv administrators of several listservs about the germaneness of the postings to dispute resolution, contracts, or other academic topic areas. Those administrator contacts usually came after someone [...]

The death of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani, on January 3, 2020, revived the discussions and interpretations regarding national security on the international scene, the “right to protect”, the legitimate defense and the legality of the attack that caused his death through the United States’ unilateral intervention. This is an old worldwide discussion, with countless [...]

Alejandro Toledo, a former president of Peru, was arrested in California on Tuesday on an extradition order for his alleged role in the Odebretch corruption scandal. Toledo is facing corruption charges in Peru for accepting bribes from Brazilian construction giant Odebretch while he was in office from 2001-2006. The Odebretch scandal spans 12 countries and [...]

The Senate of Brazil on Tuesday approved a measure to limit growth in federal spending to the rate of inflation for the next 20 years. The austerity measure, known as PEC 55 [press release,...

The Supreme Court of Guatemala on Thursday rejected a request to strip a member of congress of his immunity from prosecution for allegedly overseeing grave human rights violations during the country's civil war. Edgar Justino Ovalle is a top adviser...