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JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the return to Haiti of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is legally and constitutionally permissible, a double standard in the...

A court in South Korea on Tuesday sentenced Kim Woo-choong , founder of collapsed conglomerate Daewoo Group , to ten years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of over $10,000 while...

Leading Monday's international brief, the European Union Council of Foreign Ministers has voted to suspend economic aid to the Palestinian Authority on the grounds that EU law forbids the funding of terrorist organizations and...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that Haitian President-elect Rene Preval faces a daunting if familiar series of legal obstacles involving parliament, the judiciary and the police as...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a British official has revealed that the UN Security Council will be presented with a resolution in the next two weeks that will seek to impose mandatory sanctions against up to ten government...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the Ugandan Constitutional Court has declared that a military court-martial of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye is illegal and ordered all charges against the defendant dropped. The...

Britain has caused a diplomatic stir by rejecting a proposal advanced by US ambassador to the UN John Bolton to block the upcoming UN budget as a way to press disputed reforms to the beleagured...

The US on Tuesday threatened to hold up approval of a two-year UN budget unless reforms agreed to in September were acted on by the end of the year. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the reform proposals...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Monday that Reliant Energy and California, Oregon, Washington and three other utility companies, have reached a financial settlement for legal claims against Reliant concerning its alleged price-gouging and manipulation of energy...