Ninety members of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Signed by former president Bill Clinton , DOMA refuses federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples , including social security, tax laws, and immigration rights, and defines marriage as between a man and a [...]

The French National Assembly voted 285-225 Tuesday to approve a new version of a controversial Internet piracy law after portions of it were rejected in June by the Constitutional Council . The new version leaves discretion to suspend a user's Internet services to a judge after the Constitutional Council ruled that the power to restrict [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Raneta Lawson Mack of Creighton University School of Law says that in order to reconcile the procedural disparities inherent to the collision between inquisitorial and adversarial systems, the European Arrest Warrant can and should provide mechanisms to obtain dismissal of warrants issued based upon processes that were undertaken without notice to the [...]

Decision of the President on the Application for Pardon or Commutation of Sentence of Mrs. Biljana Plavsic, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, September 15, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

HR 3567: To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, US House of Representatives, September 15, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Defense of Marriage Act.

Projet de loi…. relatif a la protection penale de la propriete litteraire et artistique sur Internet (Bill… on the criminal protection of literary and artistic property on the Internet), French National Assembly, September 15, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the bill.

Human Rights in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories, United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, September 15, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on human rights issues in Gaza.

The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) in Afghanistan said Tuesday that ballots from about 10 percent of polls need to be recounted because of allegations of fraud in last month's presidential election. Canadian head of the ECC Grant Kippen said that ballots from about 2,500 polling places with clear and convincing evidence of fraud will [...]

Both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity during December and January's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza strip, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict headed by Richard Goldstone. The report found that Israel regularly impermissibly disregarded the welfare [...]

Tim Lynch : "Lawyers for Ramzi bin al-Shibh are doing what they are supposed to do – representing their client with zealous advocacy. The lawyers are advancing three basic claims. The first is a sweeping attack on the Military Commissions Act. The validity of the commission system is indeed dubious, but after Hamdan , the [...]