JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Johnson of the University of California Davis School of Law says that Alabama’s immigration law highlights the civil rights implications of the recent state immigration laws and, in the case of Alabama, show parallels with previous efforts to prevent desegregation…

The State Tax Service of the Ukraine on Friday announced formal charges against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for embezzlement and tax evasion. The new charges allege that during her time as head of United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) in 1996, Tymoshenko hid $165 million of corporate revenue and accumulated $5.8 million through tax [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Friday for an investigation of the previous day’s aerial bombing of a refugee camp in Unity State in South Sudan. Refugees in the camp claimed to witness an Antonov plane, often used by northern Sudan as a makeshift bomber, circling the camp and then making two [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Sandra Sperino of the University of Cincinnati College of Law says that the frameworks courts currently use to examine employment discrimination cases are too narrow in scope to deal with the type of discrimination alleged in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Dukes…

An internal UN conflict was publicized Friday concerning a dispute between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the judges he appointed to his employee rights safeguards tribunals. Just over two years after Ban instituted the internal justice system, its judges have charged the UN chief with attempting to limit their powers and “undermine the integrity [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Raymond Gilpin, Director of the Center for Sustainable Economies at the United States Institute of Peace, says that the UN piracy resolution will only have a meaningful impact on ending maritime crime if it is complementary, coordinated and comprehensive…

JURIST Guest Columnist Hua Wang, Northwestern University School of Law Class of 2012, writes on the need for policies that combine market incentives with outright prohibitions to achieve enforcement and compliance with international environmental regimes… A regulatory framework allows countries to solve environmental problems that inherently are similar and conducive to centralized decision-making and coercion. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court not to hear Arizona’s appeal of a decision enjoining four provisions of the state’s controversial immigration law . The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction in April before the law ever took effect, and Arizona is now [...]

Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj went on trial on Friday for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia . Limaj allegedly ordered two captured Serb policemen executed and tortured another Serbian captive in 1999. Limaj is also under investigation for embezzling funds while serving as transport minister. The senior politician, [...]

Syrian governmental forces have been committing crimes against humanity , including torture and unlawful killings of anti-government protesters in Homs, Syria , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Friday. According to HRW, Homs, a governorate with some of the strongest anti-government leanings, has become “a microcosm of the Syrian government’s brutality.” HRW [...]