Applying a broad definition, 13 of the 38 cases in which the Supreme Court has granted review for the upcoming October 2018 term raise criminal law and related issues. (A few more will be granted in ...

If someone says that a woman or a child is raped because the victim is a woman or a child, does it sound absurd? It sounds ridiculous because the person explains the crime incidence as caused by the ...

The Virginia Law Review is a journal of general legal scholarship published by the students of the University of Virginia School of Law. The continuing objective of the Virginia Law Review is to ...

Murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be classified as femicide. Campaigners say a broader cultural shift ...

A group of legal scholars from around the world are working to make "ecocide" an international crime alongside genocide and war crimes. A panel of 12 experts from the Stop Ecocide Foundation came up ...