A new poll shows that sixty-one percent of Japanese voters support amending the country's US-drafted pacifist constitution but there is disagreement about how far Japan should move from its renunciation of war. Article 9 of the Japanese...

The two main parties in Mexico's Congress joined forces late Thursday to strip Mexico City's mayor Manuel Lopez Obrador of immunity so he can be charged with contempt of court, threatening his bid for the presidency in...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, April 8.The US House opens its session at 10 AM ET today. Watch a live webcast. The US Senate ...

Ruling modifying publication ban, Justice John H. Gomery, Gomery Commission, April 7, 2005 . Excerpt:I am of the opinion that almost...

Resolution 1595, UN Security Council, April 7, 2005 [establishing an international independent investigation Commission based in Lebanon to assist Lebanese authorities in their investigation of all aspects the terrorist bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut on...

Reforming UN Human Rights Machinery, address by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN Commission on Human Rights, April 7, 2005 [saying that the Commission's declining credibility had "cast a shadow" over the whole United Nations and that the institution...

Doe. v. Rumsfeld, US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmet Sullivan, April 6, 2005 . Read the full...

Justice John Gomery Thursday ordered a partial lifting of a publication ban prohibiting the dissemination of testimony provided on a sponsorship scandal that has created significant political problems for Canada's governing Liberal Party. Canadians had previously...

Will and spiritual testament of Pope John Paul II, as released in English full text translation from Polish and Italian by the Vatican press office, April 7, 2005: Excerpt:I leave no property behind me of which it is necessary to...

Leading Thursday's international legal news, the continuing dispute over how to remove former Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev has resulted in the postponement of the national elections originally scheduled for June. Akayev signed legal resignation papers Monday [JURIST...