The UK House of Commons on Tuesday gave final approval to the Climate Change Bill , which requires the country to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the...

Navy defense attorney Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier was given rare access on Wednesday to Camp Seven , a special Guantanamo camp for alleged al Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees" at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday lifted a suspension imposed on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga after prosecutors in the case agreed to share [filing,...

The UK's former senior law lord Thomas Bingham on Monday criticized official UK legal justifications given for the 2003 US and UK invasion of Iraq, saying it was "a serious violation of international law and...

Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian on Sunday was taken to a Taipei hospital for treatment of dehydration resulting from a hunger strike he had staged to protest his detention in jail for corruption....

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases Friday. In Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company the Court will consider whether a decision by West Virginia...

A panel of Scotland's High Court of Justiciary Friday denied bail to convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi . The plane was blown up...

The Center for Public Policy Priorities said Thursday that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not do enough to protect the rights and welfare of minors who have entered the country illegally. In...

A panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) seeking to have bribery charges against him dropped....

The government of Bangladesh on Wednesday reinstated a state of emergency banning political demonstrations in the country for two weeks. The ban had recently been lifted after being imposed in 2007, but was reissued in response to...