JUIRST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law discusses the potential implications of Gina Haspel as CIA Director Designate…. I. Ah, if the Obama Administration had only followed my advice! November 15, 2016, after teaching class in Toledo, I had driven overnight from Toledo with a student, Victor Aberdeen, [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Peru’s Congress voted by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three months. Congress voted 87-15 in favor of admitting the impeachment motion with 15 abstentions. The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other destructive cyber-attacks. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated the Department of [...]

Peru’s Congress voted by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three months. Congress voted 87-15 in favor of admitting the impeachment motion with 15 abstentions. Lawmakers are attempting to impeach Kuczynski over his ties to the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht , which [...]

The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other destructive cyber-attacks. The Treasury Department highlighted continuing Russian destabilizing activities, including the 2016 election and the NotPetya attack, a cyber-attack attributed to the Russian military on [...]

Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation modifying electoral regulations, leading to a brawl on the chamber floor as the opposition says the new rules could lead to fraud and undermine the integrity of a slate of polls scheduled next year. The legislation allows the Supreme Electoral Council to redraw voting districts and move ballot boxes [...]

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma is facing trial over 16 charges related to corruption, South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority boss Shaun Abrahams announced on Friday. The charges include one count of racketeering, two counts of corruption, one count of money laundering and 12 charges of fraud relating to a 30 billion rand (USD $2.5 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule by a vote of 2-1. The Fiduciary Rule reinterprets the term “investment advice fiduciary” and redefines exemptions to provisions concerning fiduciaries that appear in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The rule was challenged [...]

Amnesty International (AI) called for a full investigation on Thursday into the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco. Franco, a 38-year-old human rights defender known for her outspokenness against police brutality, was shot dead late Wednesday night in what appears to be a targeted assassination. AI’s Brazil director, Jurema Werneck, cited the shooting [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Thursday detailing human rights violations that occurred during the early parts of the investigation into the kidnapping of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in Mexico. The OHCHR’s report covers human rights violations from September 2014 to January 2016 committed by the [...]