Yaroslav implemented significant legal reforms, codifying the first East Slavic law code, the Russkaya Pravda (Russian Truth ... The Union of Lublin in 1569 formally united Poland and Lithuania into ...

The push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India, exemplified by Uttarakhand's enactment, is framed as secular progress. However, critics argue true equality requires dismantling inequities within ...

California Civil Code section 1668 states that “all contracts which have for their object, directly or indirectly, to exempt ...

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the federal government. One of the executive ...

Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed the Democratic Party over its internal fractions, comparing the battle between figureheads to a “civil war.” “The party we are watching today, Democrat ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A new Trump executive order could undo years of hard-fought gains against discrimination, civil rights leaders and Constitutional law experts said. The 60-year-old landmark Civil ...

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire are asking a federal judge to strike down one of the most restrictive voter-identification laws in the country. The law, signed last ...

President Donald Trump swung his executive wrecking ball on Wednesday at a key component of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a move that threatens decades of anti-discrimination efforts.

This directive aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability in federal civil rights enforcement. Disparate-impact liability addresses policies that, while neutral on their face, disproportionately ...