UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw Monday outlined draft legislation that would officially recognize certain "rights and responsibilities" for British citizens. The legislation described in a government green paper prior to public consultations would formally...
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that the detention of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi violates Myanmar's 1975 State Protection Law and...
Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry returned to work Tuesday after being reinstated earlier this week and immediately called for members of the Pakistani judicial system to put an end to corruption...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in Knowles v. Mirzayance that a lawyers recommendation that a criminal defendant withdraw an insanity plea does not constitute ineffective...
US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh to be legal adviser to the Department of State (DOS) . Koh...
Suspected al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, and his trial date was set for May 26. At an arraignment hearing...
The Vermont State Senate voted 26-4 Monday to approve same-sex marriage in the state. This was the second of three readings of the proposed bill , entitled An Act...
At least 2,390 people were executed throughout 25 countries in 2008, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) , up from the reported 1,252 executions in 2007 ....
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York overturned Monday a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to limit the over-the-counter (OTC) availability of...
A Dutch court Monday convicted a former Rwandan Hutu for the 1994 killing of two Tutsi mothers and at least four of their children. Joseph Mpambara , who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killings,...
