Egypt’s Supreme Judicial Council on Monday agreed to oversee a national referendum on the country’s new constitution . The Council, which is Egypt’s highest administrative body overseeing the courts, plans to delegate judges to monitor the nation’s constitutional referendum, and about 10,000 judges are needed. This decision comes after the Supreme Constitutional Court indefinitely halted [...]

The Chief Judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Friday that Somalia’s territorial waters extend no more than 12 miles from shore, concluding that the US has jurisdiction to prosecute a band of pirates accused of murdering four Americans in 2011. The attack took place approximately 40 miles off [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday regarding a longtime border dispute between Chile and Peru . Peru first filed its application with the ICJ in 2008 alleging that Chile refused to enter into negotiations over the disputed maritime border and requesting that the ICJ resolve the dispute. At issue is a [...]

UK authorities led by Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday challenged a UK immigration decision that effectively blocked Jordanian extradition requests for Muslim cleric Abu Qatada . Qatada is wanted in Jordan on in absentia convictions of organizing and encouraging bomb attacks in 1999 and 2000, but the UK Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of the Stetson University College of Law discusses the proposed statutory and regulatory reforms that could curb the rising levels of spending by corporations in political campaigns…

Kosovo authorities called Sunday for an investigation into the work of former UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte for her role in bringing war crimes charges against former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj . Del Ponte, a Swiss lawyer, worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Allison Jernow of the International Commission of Jurists argues that the international law’s perception of public morality is beginning to incorporate various and diverse traditions…

JURIST Guest Columnist Andrew Lipkowitz, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the thirteenth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. He argues that Congress should enact legislation to spur competition in the broadband market… Idaho was recently designated [...]

The presidents of both Colombia and Nicaragua on Saturday expressed hope for avoiding war and using dialogue to resolve a territorial and maritime dispute following a recent ruling on the issue by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) . The ICJ ended the dispute between the two nations by ruling that Colombia has sovereignty over [...]

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday indefinitely halted its operations amid pressure from protestors aiming to block the judges from meeting to rule on the validity of the country’s new constitution . Supporters of President Mohamed Morsi flooded the court , blocking the judges from entering and forcing them to delay hearing a case scheduled [...]