Legal advocates in California are behind the fight to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship through a class action suit filed on behalf of the babies of noncitizens.

Justice Surya Kant, the future CJI, addressed the global community, highlighting India's strong human rights record. He ...

Flock Safety’s license plate recognition system allows agencies to share their data to a massive, searchable database — a ...

The German constitution outlaws the former Nazi swastika and other remnants as “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Europe’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments on Wednesday against Russia, finding ...

Most of Asia's common law jurisdictions (countries such as Singapore, Pakistan and Malaysia) have also abolished jury trials, ...

A Cayman Islands' law legalising same-sex civil partnerships was upheld by a London court on Monday, after a long-running legal battle, in a ruling hailed by campaigners and the couple who brought the ...

In addition to upending long-established enforcement of civil rights law in employment, he has undermined civil rights protections in housing and education and environmental policy; crippled or ...

The Trump administration alleged Thursday that Columbia University violated federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on campus ...

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess whether policies discriminate against different groups.

Post-Soviet countries typically follow a civil law tradition, inherited from the Soviet legal system, which itself was influenced by the German and French civil law systems. In this tradition, laws ...