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Do amicus curiae briefs work? Do they help influence the outcome of a case? The effectiveness of an expert amicus curiae brief was on display in a Palestinian criminal [...]
The Morocco Court of Appeal in April 2019 upheld the convictions and prison sentences of 43 defendants, including several journalists and alleged ringleaders of street protests in 2016-2017 in the Berber [...]
In April 2019, ISLP, in collaboration with the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe (MISA) held a strategic litigation workshop dedicated to analyzing and discussing freedom of expression from an [...]
In March of 2019, our volunteers served as trial observers in controversial, politicized criminal trials in Casablanca and Istanbul. In each case autocratic regimes punished freedom of expression and [...]
Earlier this week, ISLP volunteer lawyer, David Bulbulia, and ISLP's Myanmar in-country consultant, Laura Draper, delivered a workshop to lawyers at Justice Base, an NGO working on rule of law in Myanmar. [...]
ISLP scored a first when its Media Law Working Group wrote and filed an amicus curiae brief in a Palestinian court trying a blogger whose Facebook post angered politicians. [...]
Together with the Committee to Protect Journalists and two other prominent NGOs, ISLP wrote and filed an amicus curiae brief with the European Court of Human Rights in the [...]
(NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 2, 2018) The total intransigence of the Ortega regime in Nicaragua to halt its gross human rights violations requires urgent action by the Inter-American Court [...]
ISLP’s pro bono client, a prominent United Nations Special Rapporteur, recently praised our team for the “excellent” amicus curiae brief we wrote for her in an important freedom of [...]
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) will be working with ISLP to provide pro bono legal advice, particularly around contracts, to the female journalists in IWMF programs. The service [...]