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News DOJ drops criminal probe of AIG executive
DOJ drops criminal probe of AIG executive
Sarah Miley
May 23, 2010 09:45:03 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided not to file charges against former American International Group (AIG) executive Joseph Cassano, according to prosecutors from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on...

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Obama commission to investigate BP Gulf oil spill
Sarah Miley
May 22, 2010 12:29:20 pm

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday establishing an independent commission to investigate offshore drilling and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The National...

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News Rights group fears ill-treatment of imprisoned Thai protesters
Rights group fears ill-treatment of imprisoned Thai protesters
Sarah Miley
May 22, 2010 09:59:58 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern about the treatment of anti-government protesters detained during Thailand's latest round of political violence . The group is chiding the Thai government for enacting an emergency...

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News Kyrgyzstan interim government approves draft constitution
Kyrgyzstan interim government approves draft constitution
Sarah Miley
May 21, 2010 02:18:53 pm

The interim government of Kyrgyzstan on Thursday approved a draft constitution that will shift power from the president to the prime minister. The draft constitution defines Kyrgyzstan as a secular state and limits the president...

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News DC Circuit dismisses Bagram detainee habeas petitions
DC Circuit dismisses Bagram detainee habeas petitions
Sarah Miley
May 21, 2010 11:30:53 am

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday in Al Maqaleh v. Gates that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan cannot bring...

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News Rights group claims to have new evidence of Sri Lanka war crimes
Rights group claims to have new evidence of Sri Lanka war crimes
Sarah Miley
May 21, 2010 11:08:36 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Friday that it has acquired new evidence to support allegations of wartime abuses against civilians by both the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [JURIST news...

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UK to launch investigation into torture allegations
Sarah Miley
May 21, 2010 09:44:41 am

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary William Hague said Friday that the UK will launch an investigation into allegations that overseas UK operatives were complicit in torture. Hague stated that the new coalition government will initiate a...

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News ICC prosecutors investigating 2009 military violence in Guinea
ICC prosecutors investigating 2009 military violence in Guinea
Sarah Miley
May 20, 2010 03:45:03 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday sent a delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to Guinea to further investigate the killing of more than 150 pro-democracy protesters in Conakry in...

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UK electoral commission calls for revision of voting law
Sarah Miley
May 20, 2010 02:44:04 pm

The UK Electoral Commission called Thursday for revisions to the voting laws after 1,200 voters were unable to cast ballots in the May elections even though they had arrived at the polling station...

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France authorities arrest suspected Basque separatist leader
Sarah Miley
May 20, 2010 12:44:42 pm

Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Thursday in France, including suspected ETA leader Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe. The officers raided a residential block of the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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