The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In United States v. Navajo Nation , the Court heard arguments on whether the Court's earlier decision in the case foreclosed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the US federal government breached its fiduciary duties in connection [...]

Myanmar's military government has granted amnesty to 23 political detainees and more than 6,300 other prisoners, Thailand-based human rights group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said Sunday. Among those freed were members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, including Zaw Myint Maung , who had been imprisoned for more than 18 years.  Myanmar's [...]

UN assistant secretary general for legal affairs Peter Taksoe-Jensen stated Monday that significant progress was made during discussions of corruption alleged to exist in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Taksoe-Jensen commented that he and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An had gone over a possible anti-corruption mechanism for the court. [...]

Belgium filed suit against Senegal in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday, asserting that the ICJ must intervene because the nations are in disagreement over the prosecution of former Chadian President Hissene Habre for alleged crimes against humanity. The complaint also contained "a request for the indication of provisional measures in order to [...]

Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called for the UN to place an arms embargo on Israel and Hamas, responding to the UN's report that both parties used foreign-supplied weapons during the recent fighting in Gaza. The UN found that weapons from more than 20 countries were used during the Gaza conflict , [...]

Released Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was returned to the UK on Monday after being held for nearly seven years. Mohamed had immigrated from Ethiopia to the UK prior to his arrest, and it is not yet known whether he will be permitted to remain in the country, whose government he has repeatedly accused of [...]

Guest commentator Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LL.M. '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her native Iraq… While living in Iraq, my husband Haider Hamoudi and I began working for the Iraqi Jessup moot court team. We instructed the team to apply for their passports, so that we could work with the [...]

European members of the Group of 20 (G20) financial policy body said Sunday that tighter regulation of the financial industry and liberal trade policies are necessary to help the global economy recover from its recent downturn. The leaders met in Brussels to discuss the "European position" on how to address the crisis, in anticipation of the full [...]

Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian on Friday staged another hunger strike to protest corruption charges he faces, a Taiwanese official at the detention center where Chen is being held said Sunday. Chen was indicted on charges of embezzlement, receiving bribes, forgery, and money laundering in December, and staged an earlier hunger strike to protest the [...]

Egypt on Sunday called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a least a year, in order to allow peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels to continue. A spokesman for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that the call came out of [...]