The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday in Al Maqaleh v. Gates that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan cannot bring habeas corpus challenges in US courts. The circuit court reversed the district court's ruling, which allowed habeas corpus challenges by three Bagram detainees pursuant to [...]

A German court on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss charges against alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk . In a series of motions, Demjanjuk's lawyer asserted that the charges should be dismissed due to lack of credible evidence. The court rejected the argument, saying they found the evidence against Demjanjuk to be strong. The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Friday that it has acquired new evidence to support allegations of wartime abuses against civilians by both the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war . HRW examined more than 200 photographs taken during the last months [...]

Polly Chien, Pitt Law '12, writes about the rights of migrant workers in her home country of Taiwan… Many Americans need a cup of coffee in the morning. As a first year law student, I walk down the street from the law school to McDonald's to buy mine. Sometimes, the clerk is not fluent in [...]

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary William Hague said Friday that the UK will launch an investigation into allegations that overseas UK operatives were complicit in torture. Hague stated that the new coalition government will initiate a judge-led inquiry into the allegations, but no details were outlined in the legislative program published Thursday by Prime [...]

The US Senate on Thursday passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 , focused on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis . The bill creates a new regulatory council to monitor financial institutions in order to prevent the companies from becoming "too big to fail." It also gives [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday sent a delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to Guinea to further investigate the killing of more than 150 pro-democracy protesters in Conakry in September 2009. The purpose of the visit is to consult with judicial authorities and gather additional information on the military violence waged [...]

A Lithuanian court ruled Tuesday that the image of the swastika is part of the country's cultural identity and not a Nazi symbol. The ruling came in response to a suit that was filed against a group of men who carried posters that included the symbol during a February Independence Day parade. A witness for [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced Wednesday that Honduras has dropped proceedings against Brazil relating to the June 2009 coup in Honduras. The Honduran interim government began the proceedings last October in response to the sheltering of former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy during the coup. The ICJ was informed earlier [...]

The UK Electoral Commission called Thursday for revisions to the voting laws after 1,200 voters were unable to cast ballots in the May elections even though they had arrived at the polling station before closing. The report found that local authorities allocated too many voters to certain polling stations and provided many locations with inadequate [...]