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Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement Sunday calling on China to allow commemorations for the one-year anniversary of the “White Paper” protests against the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rights organization also urged authorities to lift censorship of protest-related social media posts and to release people currently detained for openly condemning the [...]

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Joshua Villanueva is a JURIST Assistant Editor and a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), He files this dispatch from San Francisco.  Beginning this weekend, world leaders will gather in San Francisco for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week, the largest international event this vibrant city will have witnessed since [...]

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Seven bills received Royal Assent Thursday at parliamentary prorogation, thereby becoming law. Among these are the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2023, the Online Safety Bill and the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill had its first parliamentary reading on September 22, 2022. It aims [...]

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The Irish Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) published a special report Thursday that criticizes the Irish government’s failure to properly safeguard vulnerable children in the country’s overwhelmed international protection system. The special report focuses on three key recommendations made by the OCO in 2021 following an investigation into how the state houses asylum-seeking families. It [...]

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“The conflict is long. The conflict is brutal. The conflict is intense,” said David M. Crane, formerly a chief war crimes prosecutor with the UN. Global Accountability Network , an organization Crane founded to monitor atrocities around the globe, has been following the war since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. GAN has meticulously documented [...]

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Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.  On Sunday, the Central Bank of Myanmar made an announcement concerning currency. The main points of the announcement were as follows.  [...]

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This article is the second in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens [...]

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a main competitive advantage for the 21st century is rapidly gaining momentum on the world stage. Its accelerating capabilities and potential are so significant that it will transform nearly all aspects of our societies, including the economy, education, healthcare, the law, national security, and beyond. It is becoming the driver for [...]

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