Taiwanese President Chen Shui-Bian has renewed calls for a new constitution for the country, prompting mixed reaction from the United States and mainland China. Speaking Sunday at a banquet hosted by the pro-independence...

Lance v. Coffman, US Supreme Court, March 5, 2006 . Read the court's per curiam opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

The trial of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj and two Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj , began Monday before the International Criminal...

A New Jersey superior court judge Monday upheld a Friday jury verdict for Merck & Co , finding that the company had given adequate warning to physicians of the risks associated with its painkiller Vioxx [FDA...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton refused to answer a jury question Monday in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial on the level of proof that would have to be...

Less than half of terrorism suspects arrested in the United Kingdom after September 11, 2001 under the Terrorism Act 2000 were ever charged with any crime, according to figures released Monday by the UK Home Office [official...

Former Saddam-era deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz , brought before the Iraqi High Tribunal Monday to testify against six defendants accused of genocide in the Anfal trial ,...

The lower house of the Jordanian parliament approved a bill Sunday that would subject journalists to jail sentences for defaming any religion protected under the country's constitution - i.e. Islam, Christianity or Judaism - or "offending...

Ugandan judges began a week-long general strike Monday to protest last Thursday's siege of the High Court and seizure of defendants by government forces. Court witnesses said that six defendants were rearrested by security forces in court after having...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday denounced a weekend raid by UK-led coalition forces and Iraqi soldiers on the local Basra headquarters building of the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency, ordering an investigation into...