China - Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, World Trade Organization, January 26, 2008 [finding in favor of the US that large parts of China's intellectual property scheme are inconsistent with its obligations under several international...

Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, US Supreme Court, January 26, 2009 [ruling unanimously that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects a government employee against being fired for cooperating with an internal sexual...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in three cases. In McDaniel v. Brown , the Court will consider whether the evidence underlying the defendant’s conviction for sexual...

Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga pleaded not guilty on Monday in the historic first trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Lubanga, founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese [GlobalSecurity...

Venezuela will renew its request that the US extradite anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles , an official announced on Friday. Venezuela is hopeful that the new Obama administration will be more receptive to the request...

The Supreme Court of Israel on Sunday ordered that foreign reporters be given open access to the Gaza Strip unless there is a "concrete" danger to their safety. The court gave the order...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Sunday to protect members of his country's military involved in Gaza operations from prosecution by foreign entities in remarks at a weekly cabinet meeting. After insisting that Israeli...

Bolivians began voting Sunday morning on a proposed constitution supported by President Evo Morales . The proposed changes would give the state control over the country's natural gas...

Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry declared Saturday that he is still the chief justice of the country's Supreme Court under Pakistan's constitution . Chaudhry made the statement during a lawyers'...

The legal fate of captured Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel leader Laurent Nkunda remained unclear Saturday, days after his surprise arrest in Rwanda. Nkunda was apprehended Thursday near the border with the DRC after a joint...