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News ICJ opens hearings in Japan whaling dispute
ICJ opens hearings in Japan whaling dispute
Theresa Donovan
June 27, 2013 06:29:51 am

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday began public hearings in the ongoing legal dispute between Australia and Japan over Japanese whaling near Antarctica. Australia argued at Wednesday's hearing that Japan is in violation...

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Supreme Court rules employer recommendation not property
Theresa Donovan
June 26, 2013 03:28:40 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Sekhar v. United States that attempting to compel a person to recommend that his employer approve an investment does not constitute "the obtaining of...

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UK Supreme Court allows families of Iraq soldiers to sue government
Theresa Donovan
June 19, 2013 02:28:56 pm

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the families of some British soldiers who were killed or injured in Iraq can sue the British government for damages. In its ruling, the Supreme Court stated that...

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UN rights chief urges Hungary to revoke constitutional amendments
Theresa Donovan
June 19, 2013 12:40:32 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the Hungarian government to revoke constitutional amendments that have recently come under fire for undermining the country's constitutional justice and for threatening the independence...

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Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
Theresa Donovan
June 18, 2013 01:19:27 pm

Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation of Csatary in September after he was arrested...

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ICC grants Kenya VP’s request to skip parts of upcoming trial
Theresa Donovan
June 18, 2013 12:23:52 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday conditionally granted the request of Kenyan Vice President William Ruto to be excused from parts of his upcoming trial. The Trial Chamber, however,...

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Turkish lawyers join ongoing protests
Theresa Donovan
June 12, 2013 03:10:24 pm

Thousands of Turkish lawyers on Wednesday joined the ongoing protests in Ankara and Istanbul by marching out of courthouses in black robes. This came as the result of incidents occurring during the protests on Tuesday, where a...

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Theresa Donovan
June 12, 2013 01:48:32 pm

Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow , Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday reiterated the UN Security Council's request for member states to help bring to justice nine fugitives allegedly responsible...

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US military prosecutors charge Guantanamo detainee with war crimes
Theresa Donovan
June 11, 2013 04:20:40 pm

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced that military commission charges have been filed against Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi . Al-Hadi is an Iraqi prisoner who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay...

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Theresa Donovan
June 11, 2013 11:20:13 am

A Pakistani court on Tuesday granted bail to former president Pervez Musharraf in the case of his 2007 detention of senior judges. The detention came after Musharraf imposed emergency rule in Pakistan. Musharraf, however,...

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UN approved Genocide Convention

On December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly approved the first world treaty criminalizing genocide. See the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. For much more information, read Professor William Schabas' 1999 report The Genocide Convention at Fifty.

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On December 9, 2000, the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to suspend the ongoing recount of Presidential election results in Florida. Three days later, the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, quashed the recount entirely, holding it unconstitutional. Learn more about the Florida recount from the JURIST archives.

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