13 presidential centers in the US released a joint statement on Thursday stressing the importance of the rule of law and democratic principles. Specifically, the group called for peaceful civil discourse about political topics and shared the necessity of democracy: We, the undersigned, represent a wide range of views across a breadth of issues. We [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia. On Tuesday, September 5, the situation in Latvia regarding the new Latvian Immigration Law took a significant turn. Controversial revisions to the law implemented on September 24, 2022 required Russian citizens [...]

Many federal legislators believe the United States needs a robust automated vehicle industry to promote our national interests in diverse areas—from reducing traffic deaths and cutting greenhouse gases to creating opportunities for the mobility challenged. But the public must trust this technology before it can be successfully adopted. Current events demonstrate that the automated vehicle [...]

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Mexico found that any federal regulations that criminalize abortion are unconstitutional Wednesday. The Court reviewed an injunction brought by GIRE, a reproductive rights NGO, that challenged the Federal Criminal Code where it addressed voluntary abortion. In their ruling, the court held that the criminalization of abortion constitutes [...]

The European General Court Wednesday dismissed a claim made by a group of Syrian refugees against Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which attempted to hold Frontex accountable for forcibly transferring the refugees from Greece to Turkey even though they were in the process of applying for asylum. The claimants alleged that, by [...]

“Each state is expected, perpetually, to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon the offenses against that universal law.” William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (Book 4) After January 6, 2021, it was disclosed by the special investigating committee of the [...]

A panel of three judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against environmentalists Wednesday who were challenging permits issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for a liquid natural gas terminal and pipeline in Louisiana called the Driftwood project. Environmentalist groups Sierra [...]

Lewis A. Kaplan, US District Judge for the Southern District of New York, ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, citing a ruling from earlier this year and saying that the jury in an upcoming trial will only need to determine how much money [...]

A group of Colorado voters filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against former US President Donald Trump, seeking to prevent him from appearing on the state ballot in the 2024 primary and general elections. The 100-page complaint alleges that the former president led a “broad-based effort to pressure, coerce, and intimidate state and local officials to [...]