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Max Parmelee, Pitt Law '12, discusses the ways in which his views of racial profiling changed after attending a lecture by Pitt Law Professor David Harris and reflecting on the use of profiling by federal and local authorities...Earlier this year,...

Spain's Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that will ease restrictions on abortions . The legislation passed once three veto proposals...

A Buddhist monk was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Myanmar during a visit by UN High Representative for Human Rights Tomas Ojea Quintana , an opposition lawyer confirmed Saturday. Gaw Thita was convicted Wednesday by...

A Beijing court on Friday indicted Huang Guangyu, formerly China's richest man , with insider trading, bribery, and illegal business practices. The charges , brought by the Supreme People's Procuratorate come almost 15...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr the remedy ordered by the...

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that the country's five-year-old social welfare benefit law is unconstitutional. The benefit, known as Hartz IV, merges unemployment and social assistance programs and is only granted...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday urged the US Supreme Court to dismiss as moot an appeal filed by Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

The Swiss Federal Council announced Wednesday that it would accept two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay . The council decided to admit the detainees for humanitarian reasons, despite the Chinese citizenship of both Uighurs and...

Kenyan officials on Thursday announced the creation of a special tribunal to hear legal claims dealing with HIV , including discrimination and medical confidentiality cases. The tribunal will have the legal standing and powers of a subordinate...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that 22 individuals were indicted for violating federal bribery laws in an effort to obtain foreign business contracts. An undercover operation conducted by the FBI...