The government told the Supreme Court that bringing down the age of consent for sex from 18 would make girls vulnerable to ...

This year’s essay theme was the question of how far we can and should control our destinies over lif birth and death, ...

WHEN an attempt was made to unseat then chief justice Hilario G. Davide Jr., the Supreme Court had occasion to pass upon the meaning of “to initiate” in regard to impeachments. In the 2003 case of ...

The U.S. has had consistent goods trade surpluses with Brazil since 2008, with a $6.8 billion surplus in 2024. Brazil was ...

Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh has criticized a trial court for delaying a 76-year-old army veteran's fraud case, directing all judicial officers in district to prioritize and handle such ...

Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.

2025 is halfway over, and already, there has been significant activity and legal developments throughout the U.S. on the state and local level. Below is a recap of notable laws enacted throughout the ...

A civil society organization led by retired Supreme Court justices asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to issue an order that would bar the Senate from dismissing the impeachment complaint against Vice ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti exemplifies judicial restraint — the judicial philosophy that courts should hesitate to override democratically-enacted ...

It is now a crucible for testing the balance between the judiciary’s authority and the constitutional freedoms that sustain ...

Judicial self-restraint, once a rallying cry for judges and law professors, has fallen on evil days. It is rarely invoked or advocated. This Essay traces the rise and fall of its best-known ...