Search Results for: 2001-10-17

Kevin Govern, Ave Maria School of Law

The UN General Assembly voted Monday to re-enter negotiations over an international treaty for the global sale of arms, a 70 billion dollar industry. The General Assembly adopted an arms treaty with 133 votes in...

Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on Wednesday ruled that homosexual couples in a civil union should receive the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples. The court held ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dora Rotar, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the seventh entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Rotar...

JURIST Guest Columnist Creigh Deeds, a member of the Virginia Senate, urges Governor Bob McDonnell to veto the voter ID laws recently passed by the Virginia General Assembly because they will disenfranchise elderly and impoverished voters and the laws are...

JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that the recent decisions in EU case law shows a trend towards viewing intellectual property as a way to...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted former Rwandan mayor Gregoire Ndahimana of genocide and crimes against humanity on Thursday and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Ndahimana was charged...

JURIST Guest Columnist Morris Davis of Howard University School of Law says the recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaqi highlights the fact that the CIA drone program violates the law of war because it is a civilian institution, lacking combatant immunity...I...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two cases from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit but denied review of three Guantanamo cases [JURIST...