A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday sentenced a Somali man to life in prison for his role in the hijacking of a US vessel that resulted in the deaths of four US citizens. They were the first US citizens to die in the recent wave of [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank of Emory University School of Law argues that the recent claim of zero civilian casualties from US drone strikes in Pakistan may sound good at first, but indicates more concerning possibilities in US interpretation and adherence to the laws of war…

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim testified for the first time Monday in his trial on charges of sodomy, denying the charges against him. Anwar testified that the charges against him were fabricated by Prime Minister Najib Razak in order to ruin his political career. Anwar’s lawyers are seeking to have [...]

A Finnish appeals court on Monday began hearing the appeal of former Rwandan pastor Francois Bazaramba , convicted last year on charges relating to his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Although Bazaramba had denied charges of involvement in the genocide, the court found that he ordered the killing of at least five Tutsis [...]

Representatives from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were reportedly meeting Monday with Libyan rebels to discuss turning over the son of Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi , Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, to the court for prosecution. The ICC issued arrest warrants for Muammar, Saif and Muammar’s brother-in-law Abdullah al-Sanussi in June on charges of crimes against humanity. [...]

Getoar Mjeku, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Class of 2014, is a native of Kosovo and a former broadcaster for Voice of America Albanian Service. He writes that the recent conflict with Serbia in Kosovo’s northern territory highlights Serbia’s role as a persisting roadblock to imposing the rule of law in Kosovo…

Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdad Ali Al-Mahmoudi requested that the UN create a “high-level commission” to investigate alleged human rights abuses by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) . Though NATO was mandated by the UN to use force in order to stop Muammar Gaddafi from fomenting violence upon Libyan citizens, the campaign has allegedly [...]

The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Sunday that nine lawmakers will be removed from their parliamentary positions for election fraud in the disputed September 2010 election . The representatives are to be removed because they allegedly did not receive a majority vote in 2010. Though many contest the constitutionality of the removal process, [...]

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed an appeal with the UN Human Rights Committee complaining of multiple violations of international law stemming from his five-year incarceration at Guantanamo from 2002 to 2007. Hicks, an Australian national, is asking the Australian government to “request the US authorities to formally overturn” his 2007 conviction on [...]

Attorneys for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold a controversial law that makes it illegal to falsely claim to be a decorated military veteran. The Stolen Valor Act , enacted in 2005, makes it a federal crime for an individual to “falsely represent[] himself or herself, [...]