Yale Law School Blogs

In response to the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) stayed deportations of people with criminal convictions. On December 9, ICE lifted that ban.  According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, 89 Haitian nationals were arrested and detained last week. ICE ...

For over 40 years legislation on food and agriculture was collected and disseminated by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through a publication called Food and Agricultural Legislation. Since the advent of the digital in formation age, the FAO Legal Office has taken up the challenge to provide its user ...

The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) is now open for public access prior to its formal launch in India in early 2011. LII of India at present has 50 databases, including over 300,000 decisions from 37 Courts and Tribunals, Indian national legislation from 1836, over 800 bilateral treaties, law reform reports and about ...

December 1st marks World AIDS Day, commemorated annually since 1988. Events will take place around the world. The day is seen as one promoting human rights, and the campaign slogan is universal access and human rights. There is a major rights campaign under the banner of Light for Rights. According to the World Health Organization, as of 2009, ...

The Doing Business Law Library is the largest free online collection of business laws and regulations. Created by The Worldbank, the database links to official government sources wherever possible. Translations are not official unless indicated otherwise. The collection is updated regularly but cannot guarantee that laws are the most recent ...

Seeking to create its own version of Silicon Valley, the Russian government is building a new "technology incubator" zone.  In September 2010, President Dmitri Medvedev signed a new law to establish the Skolkovo Innovation Center, located 20 kilometers west of Moscow.  It will provide incentives for private companies to ...

Poland's Justice Ministry estimates the number of online registered and reviewed court cases in Poland this year to be at half a million. More than 300,000 e-cases were filed by September, something not many had expected. There are speculations that some 100,000 people would take advantage of this solution, as altogether Polish courts reviewed ...

The European Convention on Human rights turned 60 this month. In celebration of this event, the European Court of Human Rights has devoted a page to demonstrating the Convention in video and pictures. The page even has illustrations of the specific articles of the convention, such as the right to a fair trial: Today the Court released ten ...

A recent blog posting on website of the International Vision Collective, dedicated to promoting universal values awareness, tells us of child worker exploitation in the cocoa-growing industry in Ghana and the Ivory Coast by the Hershey Company, the largest American candy producer and a purveyor of many Halloween treats from Almond Joy ...

Finding cases from Canada has gotten much easier in recent years with the addition of online resources.  Both the Bluebook (19th ed.) and the Canadian Citation Committee now require a neutral citation if one exists.  Neutral citations are in the format of case name, year [no brackets], court abbreviation (no periods), and document ...