Lawyers and judges from Sri Lanka held a large-scale protest on Monday to express their dismay over the assault of an outspoken judge and to call for a thorough, impartial investigation into the incident. Nearly 500 judges, lawyers and other legal staff members marched in front of the Colombo Court Complex carrying a coffin, which [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted seven new cases . In Bowman v. Monsanto Co. , the court will review the scope of a Monsanto patent on genetically-modified seeds that utilizes Roundup Ready technology. The seeds are altered to “self replicate,” which means that the more one plants the seeds, additional seeds will be [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday released a report urging justice for victims of international law violations that occurred Nepal’s civil war. Approximately 13,000 people were killed and 1,500 people went missing during the conflict between Nepal’s government and the Communist Party of Nepal, which lasted from 1996 [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Segall of Georgia State University College of Law says that with respect to affirmative action, the US Supreme Court should not substitute their own judgments of educational policy, diversity and fairness for those of academic experts and elected officials accountable to their local communities…

JURIST Guest Columnist Rebecca Bielski, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the sixth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. She offers insight on the legal ramifications of employees signing pre-dispute mandatory arbitration agreements…

African neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger asked the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) at a public sitting on Monday for a peaceful settlement of the longstanding and ongoing border dispute between the two former French colonies. In what is known as the “frontier dispute,” the ICJ will be asked to determine the course of [...]

A court in Kazakhstan on Monday sentenced an outspoken political activist to seven-and-a-half years in jail for allegedly colluding with a fugitive billionaire to overthrow the government. Specifically, Judge Berdybek Myrzabekov found Vladimir Kozlov , head of the unofficial Alga! party , guilty of inciting dissent among striking oil workers in what became a series [...]

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was arrested and Monday for leaving the capital city of Male in contravention of a court summons and a court-imposed travel ban. Nasheed has twice failed to appear in court to face abuse of power charges. Last Monday a three-judge panel was forced to postpone the first day of Nashed’s [...]

Rwandan citizens are being subject to unlawful detention, enforced disappearances and torture at the hands of the country’s military intelligence department, Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday. “Rwanda: Shrouded in Secrecy: Illegal Detention and Torture by Military Intelligence” documents 45 cases of unlawful detention and 18 allegations of torture or ill-treatment over two years at Camp [...]

A investigator for the Charles Taylor defense team in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was arrested Saturday on charges of contempt. Prince Taylor is accused of interfering with four prosecution witnesses who testified in the Charles Taylor trial and interfering with a fifth person who was about to give evidence in contempt proceedings. [...]