European regulators led by the French National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL) on Tuesday urged Google to clarify its updated privacy policy . Google’s new unified policy, which went into effect on March 1, outlines the company’s practices and procedures used to collect data from users as they browse Google-backed sites like YouTube, Gmail [...]

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday proposed legislation that would ban tobacco advertisements and public smoking and raise taxes on tobacco products. On his video blog Medvedev acknowledged that 44 million Russians—a third of the entire population—are nicotine dependent, making Russia the second largest tobacco market behind only China. The bill as proposed would [...]

Five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks do not have to attend court proceedings against them, a military judge ruled Monday. Army Col. James Pohl ruled that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi can elect not to attend [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of Western New England University School of Law says that, as chief justice of the Criminal Chamber of Guatemala’s Supreme Court, Cesar Barrientos has played a critical role in rebuilding the nation’s democratic institutions by upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights…

JURIST Guest Columnist Jennifer Levi, Transgender Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, says that constitutional protections must be consistently upheld by our courts regardless of how marginalized or unpopular the person to whom they apply may be…

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday opened the trial of Goran Hadzic , the last suspect to be tried by the court. Hadzic, one 161 people tried by the ICTY, is accused of committing crimes against humanity and violating the law and customs of war in contravention of articles 5 [...]

A tax evasion hearing for former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was delayed Monday again due to Tymoshenko’s health. Tymoshenko’s lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, requested the trial be postponed before court and reported that the court ignored his motion: “This was the latest farce in court. Everyone saw that the judge refused to consider the motion [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted review of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. , the first case of the term where they will consider one of the states’ new voting laws . Arizona’s 2004 Proposition 200 , in part, requires citizens to show “proof of citizenship” in addition to photo identification, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Anna Dwyer, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the seventh article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. She argues that the Florida state courts have misinterpreted a statute which affects public employees and undermined the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on Tunisian authorities to investigate a series of attacks by religious extremists over the last 10 months and to bring to justice those responsible. Of the artists, intellectuals and political activists attacked, six filed formal complaints with police and identified their attackers. However, HRW contends that police have [...]