Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday opened a probe into potential war crimes in Palestinian territories. The probe is the first step toward opening an investigation of both Palestine and Israel relating to the Gaza war last summer, and will analyze information about jurisdiction and potential crimes. The probe comes [...]

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday vetoed gun legislation supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and approved by both chambers of the Republican-controlled state legislation. Governor Snyder, a Republican endorsed by the NRA in his bid for reelection last fall, felt pressure from both sides of the issue. The bill would allow a person [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Caitlin Borgmann of the City University of New York School of Law, discusses recent circuit court decisions addressing state abortion laws and predicts that one of the decisions may reach the US Supreme Court… Federal Courts of Appeals have recently addressed two important abortion cases, either of which could end up before [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Angelique Devaux, French Qualified Attorney, discusses the newest occurrences of succession in Europe … It is just the beginning of 2015, and it is accompanied by a number of new reforms, new laws and new regulations that shall be implemented along with the New Year. 2015 shall be an important milestone into [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jill Family, Widener University School of Law, discusses Obama’s recent immigration executive actions and the Obama administration’s exercises of executive power… The push and pull between President Obama and Congress over various issues often too quickly boils down to descriptions that pit the President and Congress in battle. A popular narrative is [...]

An Argentinian federal prosecutor on Wednesday accused Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, of being involved in covering up Iran’s involvement in a 1994 terrorist attack. The bombing of the Argentinian Jewish Mutual Association is said to have been one of the country’s worst attacks, resulting in 85 deaths. The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, requested that [...]

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday condemned the recent violence in the town of Baga in northeastern Nigeria committed by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram . The release states that Boko Haram has been operating in this town since January 3 and has engaged [...]

Spain’s High Court on Thursday ordered an initial investigation of the time Amedy Coulibaly spent in Spain prior to the terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Coulibaly is one of the gunmen associated with the shooting of a policewoman and attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris that left four dead. He was reported to [...]

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said Wednesday that humanitarian workers are increasingly being called on to deal with the consequences of crises that arise out of complex situations, including poor governance, political paralysis, underdevelopment, poverty and inequality. Amos, who also heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , delivered a lecture [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Wednesday rejected the latest plea by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to pause jury selection for his trial due to the recent attacks in Paris . The judge, in a short ruling, noted that he had given potential jurors [...]