http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/16/2012 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp In a verdict hailed as a watershed moment, former Liberian President Charles Taylor last week became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202550622885 2012-04-30 00:00:00 Thirteen natives of Somalia and Yemen are on trial in federal court, accused of smuggling millions of dollars worth of khat, which is popular in their homelands but illegal in the United States. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202549451041 2012-04-19 00:00:00 A member of a drug ring that smuggled more than 10 pounds of heroin worth more than $800,000 from Ghana into the U.S. before the ring was shut down has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Drug Enforcement Administration said the charges reflect a current strategy of targeting smugglers in their home countries. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202548489649 2012-04-10 00:00:00 A group of 35 Nigerian villages sued Shell on Friday in a British court, claiming that its slow response to two oil spills destroyed the environment and their livelihoods. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202546829795 2012-03-26 00:00:00 The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes and the first judgment in the court's 10-year history. Thomas Lubanga faces a potential sentence of life imprisonment. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202545669880 2012-03-15 00:00:00 Former KBR chief executive Albert "Jack" Stanley received 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for his role in a scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials for $6 billion in contracts. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202543496273 2012-02-27 00:00:00 Covington & Burling has helped secure asylum for a Sudanese Episcopalian bishop after he became a political target in his home country due to his support of South Sudan. After Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail came to the U.S. for medical treatment last May, conflict broke out in Sudan and his home, office and church were looted and destroyed. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202540388816 2012-01-30 00:00:00 Dewey & LeBoeuf announced Wednesday that it is expanding its existing seven-lawyer Johannesburg office with the addition of eight partners and four associates from Werkmans Attorneys, one of South Africa's leading old-line firms. The arrivals make the office one of the largest to be opened in the country by an international law firm. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202537391187 2012-01-05 00:00:00 The aftermath of a bloody civil war might not seem like the best time to start doing business again in Libya. But Italian lawyers were already returning to the North African nation even before former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was captured. They intend to capitalize on the deep historic and economic ties between the two countries. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202536899008 2011-12-29 00:00:00 The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said Thursday there are "serious suspicions" that the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was a war crime. Luis Moreno Ocampo said he has asked the head of the National Transitional Council what the government's plans are to investigate alleged war crimes by all parties, including the rebels. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202535824505 2011-12-16 00:00:00