Geoffrey Corn, South Texas College of Law: "On May 9th, the Department of Defense published a revised version of Department of Defense Directive 5100.77, "The Department of Defense Law of War Program." This Directive is the foundation for all law of war related policies, training, application, and compliance programs throughout the armed forces. Like the [...]

Brigham City v. Stuart, Supreme Court of the United States, May 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the Opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., with a Concurrence by Justice John Paul Stevens.

Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005, US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Jury deliberations began Monday in the retrial of two former Enron executives from the fallen company's broadband department. Former CFO Kevin Howard and senior accounting director Michael Krautz are being retried after their first trial ended in a hung jury in 2005. Both men are charged with one count of conspiracy and falsifying records and [...]

Bushra Khalil, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Monday that she believes Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the Kurdish judge presiding over Hussein's trial , is harsher on her than other lawyers because she is a Shiite. Khalil was thrown out of court for the second time Monday after being added to Hussein's defense [...]

Legal experts with the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have questioned the credibility of some of the Cambodian judges who have been approved to serve on a war crimes tribunal that will hear cases against former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. Earlier this month, King Norodom Sihamoni approved a list [...]

The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs is reportedly preparing a document that recommends a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly inciting genocide with anti-Israel remarks . A group of Israeli diplomats, including former UN Ambassador Dore Gold , say Ahmadinejad's comments violate the 1948 UN Genocide Convention . Lawyers expect to send a [...]

The South Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) on Monday rejected an appeal of its antitrust decision against Microsoft . In December, the KFTC issued a preliminary ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position by bundling its media viewer and instant-messaging software with its Windows operating system. The KFTC fined Microsoft the equivalent of [...]

Royal Dutch Shell PLC will wait for a Nigerian appeals court ruling rather than pay a $1.5 billion judgment to compensate ethnic communities in Nigeria for pollution from its operations. A company spokesman said paying the judgment, which was due at noon Monday, would be inappropriate because of its appeal . Shell was ordered to [...]

A federal grand jury in Ohio on Monday indicted seven former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and promotion of money laundering. The seven former executives of the health care financing company are accused of conspiring to defraud investors of $3 billion by lying to investors about how their funds [...]