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Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National Court on Wednesday jailed eight Catalan ministers by court order on charges...

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado alleging violations of his constitutional rights. Abdulmutallab, who attempted to detonate an underwear bomb ...

The Moscow Meshchansky court rejected a lawsuit Monday filed by a relative of Raoul Wallenberg, seeking to access uncensored documents concerning Wallenberg's death in Soviet captivity. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who is said to have rescued...

JURIST Guest Columnists, David M. Crane, of Syracuse University School of Law, and Richard Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, discuss the widespread implications of the US decision to close the Office of Global Criminal Justice...With...

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to repeal Internet privacy regulations. Following the Senate vote , the House voted 231-189 to approve HR 230 , preventing the Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and...

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Monday claiming President Donald Trump's continued business dealings violate the...

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions began his confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the position of attorney general in the cabinet of President-elect Donald Trump . During the hearing, he was...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday that congress will debate the proposed peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) before it becomes law. The announcement was made during a broadcast of the Organization of American States...

Israel's High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the implementation of a law allowing the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikes is constitutional. The court handed down the decision after ruling against petitions filed by the Israel...

JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...