Criminal Law

Historic criminal justice reform legislation now finds itself atop Donald Trump’s policy agenda, and one floor vote away from his signature.

The United States needs to engage with the ICC not push it aside.

Is Mohammed bin Salman's purge just for show? Or is it the beginning of a real government cleanup?

With gun control back on the agenda in the United States, the Australian story is instructive for a number of reasons.

American and Chinese officials should combat the destruction of cultural heritage sites and the looting and trafficking of illegal antiquities.

On Friday, Pakistan's top court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding any public office after finding him guilty in a massive corruption case.

Federal judge Sergio Moro sentenced former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) to nearly 10 years’ imprisonment for illicit enrichment.

Far too many European governments and police forces, including the British, were happy to see the backs of militants when they left to join ISIS. But people can...

Latin America’s homicide rate is exceedingly high at a time when murder is declining virtually everywhere else. The region is home to just eight percent of the...

Local lawmakers in a range of red, blue, and purple states have begun embracing criminal-justice reforms aimed at saving money, lowering crime rates, and giving...

The ICC does have flaws—such as limited political will and uneven membership—but it remains crucial to combatting impunity, especially among high-level officials...

Nicaragua is conducting a prison release program that has broad implications on the future of Central American prison reform.

In late January, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal in United States v. Texas, involving U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive order...

In order to bring down a major criminal like Guzmán, a state must have a functioning criminal justice system, and it must have effective laws that allow it to...

Brazilian prisons were created—and are run by—drug cartels. An inmate who became a leader of a criminal faction tells his story.

In 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) came into being. At the time, observers were hopeful that rule of law could help constrain humanity’s worst impulses...

The Fourth Plenum took a bureaucratic view of the judiciary, treating it as an ally to the regime in improving governance rather than as the people’s advocate...

Despite protests from Libya, the ICC's decision to try Saif al-Islam, the son of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi, might seem to offer a chance for real...

Former Chinese politician Bo Xilai is expected to be sentenced for corruption this weekend. If his trial had been a TV drama, the closing credits for directing and...