Supreme Court hears hallucinogenic tea, police interrogation cases
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday, with newly appointed Chief Justice John Roberts taking an active role in both. Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal [Duke...
IAEA chief urges negotiations to ban nuclear weapons production
Mohamed ElBaradei , Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Monday called for the start of negotiations on the long-stalled Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty , a global treaty banning the further production...
West ignoring Russian rule of law breakdown, expelled Khodorkovsky lawyer says
Robert Amsterdam , international defense counsel for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , says that Western governments are turning a blind eye to the deteriorating rule of law in Russia exemplified by his client's prosecution and recent...
Iran hints Security Council referral will prompt uranium enrichment
Iran cautioned the International Atomic Energy Agency Sunday that a referral to the UN Security Council may encourage Tehran to begin uranium enrichment. Iran broke seals at a uranium...
US considers new 'networked munitions', rejects treaty banning landmines
US Pentagon officials are in the final stages of determining whether to implement a new weapons program that would mandate the production of a new era of landmines, dubbed "networked munitions", in the face of international opposition to such...
Roberts papers show nominee had doubts about genocide treaty, but advised approval
New papers by US Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. released by the National Archives Friday indicate that as a young White House lawyer in 1984 he had some doubts over American ratification of the...
Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...
Diplomats at an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency are working Thursday on a resolution that expresses "serious concern" over the restart of Iran's nuclear program , but stops short of asking the UN...
States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a native of Aix-en-Provence who returned to France to vote in its referendum on the European Constitution, says that...
