JURIST Guest Columnist David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, now at Syracuse University College of Law, says it's time for Nigeria to hand over former Liberian president Charles Taylor for trial on war crimes charges… A little over three years ago, on 3 March 2003, I signed the international [...]

The largest UK trial of terrorism suspects since al Qaeda's September 11 attacks on the United States got under way in London's Old Bailey Tuesday with seven British men facing charges of planning bombings in Britain in retaliation for British support of US policy. Prosecutor David Waters said the men were fully prepared and had [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke told a UK Commons committee Tuesday that he has not given up on the option of detaining suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge, and may introduce additional legislation to that effect either next year or in 2008. Suspects can be detained without charge for 14 days under [...]

Nadarajah v. Gonzales, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, March 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

United States v. Grubbs, Supreme Court of the United States, March 21, 2006 . Excerpt: Because the Fourth Amendment does not require that the triggering condition for an anticipatory search warrant be set forth in the warrant itself, the Court of Appeals erred in invalidating the warrant at issue here. Read the full text of [...]

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments on whether a patent on a two-step technique used to measure Vitamin B deficiencies allows its owners to monopolize an unpatentable scientific principle or natural phenomenon. Bush administration lawyers urged the Court not to consider the broader questions raised by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Metabolite [...]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former owner of Russian oil giant Yukos who was convicted of tax fraud last year and is now incarcerated in a Siberian prison , filed an appeal Tuesday in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) alleging that the Russian courts violated his due process rights. Khodorkovsky's lawyers announced their intention [...]

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin indicated Tuesday that he might back off from his previous insistence on a provision of the First Employment Contract (CPE) he guided through Parliament earlier this month that would allow employers to fire any worker under 26 years old without cause during the first two years on the job. [...]

The US has welcomed a weekend agreement by the eight main political parties of Bosnia and Herzegovina on changes to the country's constitution at the end of negotiations that began four months ago . The final outstanding issue involving procedures for presidential elections was resolved by Bosnian Muslims and Serbs accepting the request of Croats [...]

Chinese prosecutors are refusing to release a New York Times researcher despite receiving a court order last week dismissing the charges against him, the researcher's lawyer said Tuesday. Zhao Yan has been detained since 2004, accused of leaking confidential state information to foreigners , but the charges were unexpectedly dropped last week, reportedly in anticipation [...]