Last June, Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued a blanket pardon to 100,000 people in Maryland, forgiving decades of low-level marijuana ...

Ahead of the Speak Up for Justice panel, JURIST Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas spoke with Judge Eleazar Javier Saldivia, a former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge now living in exile, ...

True independence of the judiciary in Bangladesh can only be achieved by removing fascist influences from both the upper and lower courts, BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed said today (3 ...

The discussion of the Consensus Commission began around 11:10am at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital with Prof Ali Riaz in the chair ...

Gadi Eisenkot's dramatic exit forces Israeli politics to choose between confrontational alliances to defeat Netanyahu or Gantz's revolutionary pivot toward compromise.

Judicial governance and court administration will be placed under the authority of the judiciary itself, enabling it to ...

South Carolina is one of just two states where the legislature elects judges. Changes designed to address that and boost ...

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned, “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the ...

The state budget, judicial selection process reform, and new guidelines for schools to help students with epilepsy all took ...

A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes and sentencing enhancements.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared the new criminal laws as the most significant legal reform in Independent India. The ...