Kenya Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Ruto is on trial for three counts of crimes against humanity for allegedly fomenting violence following the 2007 elections that led to the deaths of at least 1,100 people and displacement of [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Richer, University of Chicago Law School Class of 2015, analyzes the repercussions stemming from the recent New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that prohibits people from discriminating against LGBT individuals as clients, even if it contradicts their religious beliefs…

A leading Sudan opposition figure jailed in 2004 for an alleged coup attempt was released from prison on Sunday. Yousef Mohammed Saleh Lebis is a member of Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP), which is led by Hassan al-Turabi . Lebis’ release is a result of the promise made by President Omar al-Bashir in April that [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center provides several legal justifications under the UN Charter for the use of force in Syria…

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suggested Monday during oral arguments that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2011 “Open Internet” rules may be invalidated in whole or in part. Verizon has filed suit twice in three years alleging that the rules, which allow the government to [...]

A judge for Indiana’s Lake County Superior Court ruled Monday that the state’s right-to-work law violates the Indiana Constitution . The state law bans unions from receiving compensation from non-union employees to pay for bargaining costs and services. Federal law, however, requires unions to bargain on behalf of employees, including non-union members. The International Union [...]

Yahoo filed suit in the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Monday demanding the right to disclose the number of user data requests made by the US government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) . Last week Yahoo joined Google and Microsoft in publishing a transparency report , which details all government data [...]

The European Commission on Monday instructed Samsung Electronics to offer more concessions in their proposal to settle antitrust charges. Samsung has been charged with breaching the EU’s antitrust rules by engaging in patent lawsuits against the company’s chief rival, Apple . Sumsung has since engaged in negotiations for a settlement with the Commission. Upon rejection [...]

Former Israeli president Moshe Katzav was allowed to leave the prison for 24-hours on Monday, marking his first furlough since his 2011 conviction for the rape of female employees in the 1990s. Katzav, who has consistently denied the charges, has served a quarter of his seven-year sentence, thereby qualifying him for the brief release under [...]

According to a report released by the Washington Post Saturday, the Obama administration won permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency (NSA) use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails. The revelations come from materials recently declassified by the Obama administration, including a 2011 [...]