The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case dealing with a parent’s ability to sue for custody in the US when a court has determined that the child’s normal residence is in another country, and the child has already left the US. In Chafin v. Chafin , US Army sergeant Jeffrey Lee [...]

Leaders of political opposition in Kuwait on Sunday criticized the government’s efforts to change the country’s election law through the Constitutional Court, saying the government is attempting to seize power through the court in violation of the constitution. The government announced last week that they had asked the national Constitutional Court to review the legality [...]

A Bahrain court has sentenced a man to two years of imprisonment for making defamatory comments about a wife of the Prophet Muhammad . The 19-year-old man allegedly posted offensive comments on a website that insulted Muhammad’s wife Aisha. The Bahrain Information Affairs Authority (IAA) announced on Sunday that the man had been found guilty [...]

Ending discrimination against women is necessary to fix the problem of global poverty, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. Speaking before the World Congress of Global Partnership for Young Women in Seoul, South Korea, Ban declared that while women around the world have made tremendous advances in fields such as business, law and government, laws [...]

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada warned Saturday that the public would lose faith in the Canadian legal system unless access to the courts is made available for everyone. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin , speaking at a news conference following an address to the Canadian Bar Association , said that the high [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Gerald Carr, Michigan State Univeristy College of Law Class of 2013, examines the challenges that the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians face over building a casino on land that is not part of their reservation… The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe currently operates five casinos in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP). The [...]

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for a new trial, accusing prosecutors of delaying the disclosure of crucial information. Karadzic is currently representing himself at trial. In his motion, he said that the prosecution failed to disclose crucial information until after the start [...]

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi issued a declaration on Sunday that gives the president complete legislative and executive power, abolishing a June declaration that reserved power for the military . The declaration grants Morsi the power to establish public policy and sign international treaties . The declaration also allows Morsi to create a new legislature to [...]

A judge for Australia’s Queensland District Court has, for the first time in Australian jurisprudence, defined the term “conception” as the act of getting pregnant. Judge Leanne Clare defined “conception” Wednesday as “the commencement of the pregnancy, which involves an active process within a woman’s body,” rather than the moment of fertilization. In this case, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that French authorities raided two camps inhabited by Romanian Roma early Thursday morning and evicted all of the more than 200 residents, leaving them without homes. The same day, 240 Romanian Roma who had been previously evicted from camps were flown from France to Romania. French officials claim the dismantling [...]