Croatian prosecutors announced Saturday that they have charged former prime minister Ivo Sanader with embezzlement relating to a real estate deal that took place during his time in office. Sanader is accused of using government funds to purchase a building in the capital city of Zagreb at an inflated price and stealing the surplus. Sanader [...]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu on Sunday called for former US president George W. Bush and former UK prime minister Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their roles in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Tutu argues that The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to [...]

Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday introduced a draft bill aimed at liberalizing the country’s labor laws. The bill was introduced in the Congress of Mexico by Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, and it seeks to improve the transparency of Mexico’s trade unions and make labor regulations more flexible. Lawmakers from both the Institutional Revolutionary Party [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Matthew Cavedon, Emory University School of Law Class of 2015, compares the Department of Health and Human Services’s contraception mandate to the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to regulate tobacco… As 24 lawsuits filed against the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) contraception mandate wind their way through the courts over [...]

A Brazilian federal judge in Para on Friday agreed to conduct the first trial against members of its former dictatorship for alleged crimes during the military’s rule from 1964-1985. The defendants are two retired army reserve members, Colonel Sebastiao de Moura and Major Licio Maciel, accused of kidnappings during suppression of the Araguaia guerilla movement [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday added two new cases to its docket for next term. The first case, The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles , involves the procedural issue of whether a class action can be removed to federal court when there is dispute over whether the amount in controversy is over $5 [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued a preliminary injunction on Friday that will prevent Ohio Secretary of State John Husted from limiting early election voting in the three days preceding the election to members of the Armed Forces. In deciding that polls must be kept open to [...]

The secretary general of a leading Ivory Coast opposition party was sentenced on Friday to six months of imprisonment. Laurent Akoun of the Ivorian Popular Front, the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo , was sentenced after being convicted of disturbing public order. He was taken into custody last Sunday following comments he made at [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the trend of hiring independent corporate investigators and monitors, as exemplified by the most recent investigation into The Pennsylvania State University, has become overly expensive and fails to bring about greater accountability…

A UN human rights expert on Thursday condemned Iraq for the executions of 21 people on Monday and five more people on Wednesday. UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Chistof Heyns urged the government of Iraq to halt all executions and ensure that all criminal defendants have fair trials. Heyns decried the [...]