Alexander Konovalov, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, recently stated "Justice must be administered by taking into account the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights". The High Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, which is the highest Russian judicial instance...

This paper assesses government compliance to European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decisions and the fulfillment of ECHR member-state criminal justice obligations. Judgments of the ECHR can involve either a monetary award given by the state to the claimant, individual measures or general...

In recent years, immigrant rights advocates have criticized certain policies of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) system of immigration detention, including the widespread use of private contractors, the lack of proper oversight, the grouping of violent criminals and non-violent...