Saturday, February 27, 2021 On December 26, 2020, the twenty-fourth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China voted to adopt “Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China (11)” (中华人民共和国 刑法修正案 （十一）), which will come into force on March 1, 2021.Read More →
The United States carried out airstrikes in Syria early Friday morning, killing several people and destroying several buildings. The Pentagon said that the airstrikes were a response to a rocket attack which occurred on February 15, ten days earlier, at Erbil airport in northern Iraq, about 400 km away. ThisRead More →
A Notre Dame Law School professor is among legal experts who have condemned US President Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria on Thursday as a flagrant violation of international law. “The United Nations Charter makes it clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign stateRead More →
ANKARA Greece, in flagrant violation of a fundamental tenet of asylum law, has pushed back more than 80,000 refugees to Turkey in the past three years, Turkey’s deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at the seminar on human trafficking and asylum organized by the Justice Academy of Turkey –Read More →
How do you explain deterrence and the presumption of innocence to children? Peter Sankoff, a law professor at the University of Alberta, and his 11-year-old daughter, Penny, addressed these complex conversations in a family podcast. It’s called Translating Criminal Law: G-rated The duo recorded 10 episodes in their Edmonton, Alta.Read More →
Zoe Berg, photo editor On February 18, the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum hosted a virtual discussion titled “Criminal Law Enforcement Across National Borders.” The session, open to the general public on Zoom, was the second of seven bi-weekly Thursday webinars this semester designed to bridge the gap between the legal,Read More →
Crime is an act punishable by law and considered a misdemeanor, but how will we determine which act is a crime? criminal law deals with crime and is their core principle of criminal law – According to John Austin, “Law is a set of rules established by men as politicallyRead More →
Jullian Jessop, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the city’s business lost to Europe is irritating but not worth much money. “It’s mostly low-margin, like stock trading. There’s no profit in it, and not a lot of jobs. If the EU wants to play this game, letRead More →
House impeachment officials spent the first full day of the Senate trial setting the timeline that led to the attack on the Capitol. They showed videos, tweets and other documents. It was great politics, but bad constitutional law. They focused on Donald Trump’s claims, from election night to the dayRead More →
In an interview Monday on Boston Public Radio, constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe said the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump would be “completely devastating for the country to watch” and predicted that a handful of Republican Trump supporters in the Senate would be “shaken” by aRead More →
