British Home Secretary John Reid Monday outlined steps to combat the increasingly urgent problem of prison overcrowding . Over the weekend, the prison population of England and Wales reached a record...

The US Navy lawyer who successfully represented the plaintiff Guantanamo detainee in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court has been denied a promotion and will leave the...

JURIST is seeking to expand its Webby award-winning staff of professional editors by hiring a talented, public-service oriented individual with law and/or journalism experience to serve as a part-time legal news editor based in California. JURIST's West Coast Editor...

Leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Monday repeated their call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to lift international arrest warrants against five top LRA leaders, and threatened to continue their violent...

The UN Security Council Monday nominated Ban Ki-Moon , the current South Korean Foreign Minister, to succeed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan when Annan's term ends in January. Ban won the Council's nomination after four...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has said that France will impose a smoking ban in public locations in February 2007, and will likely extend a smoking ban in restaurants,...

Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has declined to set a timeline for lifting martial law in Thailand, but will return the country to normalcy "as soon as possible," a government spokesperson said Monday. The spokesperson...

Saddam Hussein's genocide trial continued Monday in Baghdad as a witness for the prosecution testified that troops under Hussein's command bulldozed her family into a mass grave. The woman was 13 during the alleged...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on Sunday voiced tentative support for a formal, written UK constitution, saying that the possibility merited "serious" consideration. Goldsmith, however, rejected a proposal by Conservative leader David Cameron for a written bill...

Militia attacks in Sudan's Darfur region may have killed hundreds of people in August, many more than previously thought, according to a report issued Monday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise...