The ongoing dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reflects a deeper structural challenge in international water governance: the fragmentation of legal regimes and the inability of ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Texas may require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. In a closely divided en banc decision in Nathan ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US Supreme ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for wire fraud and other fraudulent crimes in connection to its covert operations. The indictment ...

For most lawful permanent residents, coming home from a trip abroad is supposed to be just that: coming home. But in Blanche ...

El Salvador's Fiscalia General de la Republica opened an unprecedented mass trial Monday against 486 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, including founders and top-level ...

A panel of UN experts on Monday unsuccessfully pleaded with the European Union to immediately suspend the EU-Israel ...

UN experts on Monday raised alarm over allegations of poor conditions, inhumane treatment, and other international law violations at a Belarus detention center. Following confidential meetings with ...

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court found Monday that the state's ban on the use of Medicaid funds for abortions is unconstitutional, in part because there is a fundamental right to get an abortion ...

Burkina Faso’s military government has escalated a sweeping crackdown on civil society through restrictive legislation, administrative pressure, and punitive measures targeting both domestic and ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday approved revisions to its defense equipment and technology framework, lifting restrictions on overseas weapons exports. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated: 'In ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a challenge to a Colorado law that requires private religious preschools to accept children of same-sex couples in order to receive state funding.