Legal News

The LRA and the "Night Commuters"
During the course of the 20-year conflict in Northern Uganda, over 30,000 children have been brutally tortured and forced into years of servitude as child soldiers and sexual slaves...

Equal Inheritance Rights Could Positively Impact Health and Economy in Uganda
Rachel C. Loftspring (J.D. Candidate 2008, University of Pennsylvania Law School) has recently published her Comment entitled Inheritance Rights in Uganda: How Equal Inheritance Rights Would Reduce Poverty and Decrease the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, 29 U...

Same Sex Marriages in Uganda
Uganda has most often been castigated for its approach on the subject, despite which it maintains a rather rigid and bold stand; which has seen the most recent amendments to its legislation outlawing homosexuality in any form or stage.

No Whistlin Dixie: Court Upholds School Ban on Confederate Flags
In 2005, Steven Lafon, the principal of the William Blount High School in Maryville, Tennessee, told an assembly of the freshman class that students “would not be allowed to have Rebel flags or symbols of [the] Rebel flag” on their clothes...

Peace vs. Justice or Peace & Justice: The ICC in Northern Uganda
Does international criminal justice promote the settlement of on-going conflicts or does it, in contrast, stand in the way of peace agreements? This question has become one of the most pressing in the fields of international criminal law and transitional justice...

Doctors in Uganda Say Abortion Should Be Made Legal
allAfrica.com: Uganda: Doctors Want Abortion Made Legal, by Chris Ocowun: PARLIAMENT should pass a law allowing induced abortion among young school girls in the war-ravaged north to reduce the high death rate of expectant mothers, medical doctors in Gulu have...

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Island Express
Helicopter Crash Kills Three, Injures three

Bank Website Security
New Report Finds Widespread Flaws

Operating Room Fires
Hundreds Injured During Surgery, New Report Shows

Tree Stands
Ardisam Inc. pays $420,000 settlement for failing to report defective product to government officials.