JURIST Guest Columnist Louise Bennetts of the Cato Institute gives a critique of Dodd-Frank and argues that recent regulatory trends are incompatible with a rule-based system…
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Friday for a UN commission to examine human rights abuses in North Korea . The rights group stated that little has changed within the totalitarian government since Kim Jong-un succeeded his father Kim Jong-il in leading the country one year ago. HRW stated the situation may be getting worse, noting [...]
The Sri Lankan Parliament voted in an overwhelming majority on Friday to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake and drafted an official motion imploring the president to remove her from office. According to the motion, the Chief Justice’s actions have “plunged the entire Supreme Court and specially the office of the Chief Justice into disrepute.” The [...]
The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Friday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb police officer to 20 years in prison for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . 42-year-old Bozidar Kuvelja was found to have been actively involved in a 1995 military search for Bosnian Muslims in the village of Potocari [...]
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Tuesday requested that the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review a decision last month that struck down Illinois’ ban on carrying concealed weapons. A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit, relying on the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller ruled in December that [...]
An Austrian court convicted three neo-Nazis on Thursday of glorifying Nazism over the Internet, sentencing them to as many as nine years in prison. Neo-Nazi leader Gottfried Kuessel was sentenced to nine years in prison for creating the Alpen-Donau website, which promotes Nazism. Kuessel spent time in prison during the 1990s for his attempt to [...]
A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia will delay the enforcement of the ban of the adoption of Russian children by US citizens until January 2014. As a result, Russia will continue to honor the validity of the “existing bilateral adoption agreement between Russia and the United States.” Putin signed [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) asked Libyan officials Thursday to address reports that they plan to try Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi , and Abdullah al-Senussi , the former intelligence chief for Gaddafi. Libya has refused to hand the two men over to the ICC, and last week announced [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Thursday on whether to release photos of the body of former al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden . The judges appeared unswayed by arguments made by conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch (JW) which has filed a Freedom [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Aguirre of the Regents College London says that although the recently adopted ASEAN Human Rights Declaration is a significant step forward, much work remains to be done in order to protect human rights in the region…
