Finance expert William Brodsky on Friday called for the merger of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) . Brodsky and others testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services to discuss Obama administration proposals for financial regulatory reform. The Chicago Board Options Exchange CEO maintained [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday acquitted opposition leader Nawaz Sharif on charges of hijacking a plane carrying General Pervez Musharraf in 1999. The conviction had barred Sharif from running for office, although the court lifted the ban in May. It was alleged that then-prime minister Sharif ordered Musharraf's return flight to the country [...]

Former Boeing engineer Dongfan "Greg" Chung was convicted Thursday of stealing corporate trade secrets related to the US Space Shuttle program and turning them over to China in the first ever trial under the Economic Espionage Act . Chung, a native of China, was tried in the US District Court for the Central District of [...]

The US Senate approved a bill Thursday that would expand hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender. The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act would provide federal assistance to state and local authorities to prosecute hate crimes and would allow the federal government to prosecute such crimes that state or [...]

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a suit against Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for allegedly misusing FBI background records to obtain information on Republican White House employees during Bill Clinton's presidency. US District Judge Royce Lamberth removed Clinton as a defendant in the case because there was no legal basis to require Clinton [...]

The Greek Parliament voted Wednesday to approve legislation that would create a DNA database and allow the use of surveillance cameras in fighting crime. The measure, supported by the ruling conservative New Democracy party, would allow for the collection of DNA samples from all criminal suspects. Upon acquittal, the sample would be destroyed, but upon [...]

Former US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel lawyer John Yoo defended warrantless wiretapping in an essay published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal . Yoo was responding to a report released by five government agencies that alleged that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program relied on flawed legal analysis and produced results of [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Maria Alvanou of the Hellenic Police Officers Academy says that new Greek counter-terrorism initiatives should respect the rights and freedoms of Greek citizens even though the tactics of domestic terrorist groups themselves seem increasingly to disregard public opinion… Greece has recently begun to confront a revival of terrorist activity with a [...]

Lawyers for ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra challenged the Thai government's decision to seize $2.2 billion of Thaksin's assets during a hearing Wednesday before Thailand's Supreme Court Criminal Division for Political Office Holders. The attorney general claims Thaksin is unusually rich and accused him of making his fortune through abuse of his power. Thaksin's [...]

Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, writes from Brussels about the European Union elections… It would have been easy to forget entirely about June's elections for the European Parliament if one ignored the election posters plastering European cities, portraying diverse faces of every color, creed, and gender beaming out of every convenience store window. Indeed, it [...]