Argentina on Tuesday submitted a request to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, seeking an order for provisional measures against the United Kingdom to halt British exploitation of hydrocarbon resources on the continental shelf to the north of the Falkland Islands. The move comes amid an ongoing dispute between the two states [...]

A UN expert on Monday called on states to emphasize and strengthen prevention as the most effective and sustainable means of combating the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children. Ai Kihara-Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, presented her first report to the General Assembly this week. [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the question of whether the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be required by courts to disclose records on DOGE’s interactions with other federal agencies. The first question the Court will consider is whether the court of appeals’ order complies with Cheney v. United States [...]

Surviving an execution does not cancel a death sentence. A 1947 Supreme Court ruling allowed a second attempt, and today’s Eighth Amendment standards are demanding. Tennessee failed on September 30 to carry out what would have been its first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. Christa Pike survived what her lawyers describe [...]

US President Donald J. Trump continues to treat world politics as a quantifiable game to be won or lost. Among other errors, this treatment links world peace to belligerent nationalism and ignores the human foundations of national security. The following article by Purdue University Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres explains how such a view would [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) joined eighteen other human rights organizations on Monday in condemning the Turkish government for escalating internet censorship, stating that the measures were a violation of the right to freedom of expression. In September, İFÖD, Türkiye’s Freedom of Expression Association, reported that 1,270 accounts on X were geo-blocked in Türkiye. X complied with [...]

The Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) and Football Supporters Europe (FSE) published a joint report Tuesday documenting the failure of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to implement its own human rights policies at the 2026 Men’s World Cup. Frank Conde Tangberg, policy advisor at Amnesty International, commented on the contrast between how the [...]

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday directed the New York Police Department to conduct a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and practices for the first time in a decade. He announced a package of reforms aimed at strengthening civilian oversight, including new procedures to prevent officers from retiring before facing disciplinary proceedings. [...]

When lawyers compare state juvenile justice systems, there is a natural temptation to begin with the visible rule: the minimum age, the availability of diversion, the possibility of transfer to adult court, or the existence of a restorative justice program. Those are important starting points. They are not always the rules that determine what actually [...]