A US military court opened an Article 32 hearing in Baghdad on Tuesday for a civilian military contractor accused of aggravated assault. Earlier this month, the US military charged Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali, a dual Iraqi-Canadian citizen working as a translator in Iraq, with the February stabbing of another contractor. He is the first civilian [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of dictator Pol Pot by urging the international community and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to continue efforts to bring senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge to justice. Ban said: I would like to remind the international community of [...]

A three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Tuesday regarding the constitutionality of a private body established by Congress to oversee accounting practices in publicly traded companies. In 2006, conservative business organization Free Enterprise Fund challenged provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishing the Public [...]

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction to intervene in Khadr's case to determine whether only detainees found to be "unlawful enemy combatants" may be subject to a military commission , or if such [...]

United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., et al., US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Death Sentences and Executions in 2007, Amnesty International, April 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and acquitting 15 others. The 40 Brotherhood members were originally charged with terrorism, but those charges were later dropped; the trial, which lasted [...]

The rule of law is a necessary prerequisite to achieving all eight of the UN's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an address Monday at the opening of the 17th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice . [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two tax cases Tuesday, including MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue , where the Court overturned an Illinois state court decision allowing the state to tax a portion of the $1 billion capital gain realized by MeadWestvaco's predecessor when it sold its interest in Lexis/Nexis. The [...]