Why Carlos Ghosn's allegation of an unfair Japanese justice system is unjustified
Feb 04, 2020 12:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
When Carlos Ghosn, the former chief executive of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, fled from Japan to Lebanon in December 2019 protesting his innocence against charges of financial improprieties, he said his escape was prompted...
How we discovered a personality profile linked to war crimes
Feb 04, 2020 12:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Former US Private First Class Stephen Green was found guilty of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl and murdering her family in Mahmudiyah, Iraq in 2006. Four years later, US Corporal Jeremy Morlock was convicted of...
Explainer: what is the 'palace letters' case and what will the High Court consider?
Feb 04, 2020 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 remains as controversial as ever. Its last chapter is to be decided by the High Court, with proceedings about public access to the letters between the governor-general, Sir...
Supreme Court allows public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
Feb 03, 2020 12:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nations existing quotas. The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration laws likely to...
A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma
Jan 29, 2020 07:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
The high price of insulin, which has reached as much as US$450 per month, has raised outrage across the country. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has called it a national embarrassment, wondering why U.S. residents should have...
UN ruling could be a game-changer for climate refugees and climate action
Jan 29, 2020 06:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The recent ruling by the United Nations that governments cannot return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by climate change is a potential game-changer not just for climate refugees, but also for...
Does impeachment need a crime? Not according to framers of the Constitution
Jan 28, 2020 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
Donald Trumps legal and political defenders are all singing the same refrain: The president cant be impeached; he hasnt committed a crime. Alan Dershowitz, the constitutional lawyer now representing Trump, said it...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects