Dominic Ongwen , an alleged former top official in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity brought against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The charges stem from LRA attacks committed in late 2003 and 2004 in Ugandan IDP camps and include [...]

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled Tuesday that nuclear plants that were closed or scheduled to be closed as a result of a statute passed in 2011 can recover damages. The statute accelerating the closing of German nuclear plants was passed in response to the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Japan, and just months after [...]

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced fugitive Idris Ali Sardar to death for war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The ICTB held the trial in absentia, listing Sardar as “absconded” in the court documents. Sardar worked as a leader of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during the war, allying himself with [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in racial gerrymandering cases from Virginia and North Carolina. The first case, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections is analyzing a redistricting plan in Virginia that was completed after the 2010 census. The approved plan was to require 55 percent of voters in a dozen [...]

A court in Greece on Monday ruled against extradition of three Turkish soldiers, determining that the soldiers should be released from protective custody pending a final ruling on their asylum applications. The soldiers, along with five others, fled to Greece after being suspected of involvement in an attempted coup against President Tayyip Erdogan that took [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Karen Czapanskiy of the University of Maryland Francis King Cary School of Law discusses the road not taken in the recent Supreme Court case on in-school service dogs for special needs children…

Prosecutors before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began closing arguments in the trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic . It is expected that the closing arguments will last over one week and the verdict is expected to come in 2017. This trial marks the last major trial [...]

The UK Supreme Court on Monday began hearing an appeal to last month’s ruling that only parliament has the authority to trigger the UK’s exit from the EU. The case centers around the question of whether it is constitutional for Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 , which is the issuance of formal [...]

A UN Special Rapporteur on Monday “strongly condemn” the executions of three men in Belarus last week. Citing the executions as a confirmation of the “the persistent disregard for human rights in the country,” the expert asserted that the country should have stayed at least two of the executions until their cases, which were pending [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Sunday that Shawqi Awad Balzuhair will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the government of Cape Verde, a small country off the Western coast of Africa. Balzuhair was first captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002. The Periodic Review Board determined that “continued law of war detention of [...]