The US Supreme Court’s emergency 6-3 ruling reviving the Trump administration’s expanded use of the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to cross-reference voter registries represents an alarming new frontier in the erosion of American voting rights. While framed by the executive branch as neutral administrative upkeep, the structural reality of this decision [...]

In May 2026, The Gambia’s High Court acquitted three women prosecuted in connection with the death of an infant following female genital mutilation (FGM). The court found that the child had died from injuries sustained during FGM, but in her ruling, Justice Isatou Janneh upheld a “no case to answer” submission by the defense on [...]

Editor’s note: With the November 3 US congressional midterm elections a month away, JURIST is publishing this open letter from Gary J. Simson, a constitutional law scholar and two-time law school dean who has taught for more than 50 years. Writing directly to college, university, and law students, Simson argues that the federal executive branch [...]

In this four-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case. Here, in Part 2, he puts it to work on 24 years of [...]

“Where are you, Sepehr?” The question is not philosophical when it is first spoken. It is a question asked by a body that has been deprived of the body it seeks. Somewhere inside an unidentified warehouse, thousands of corpses lie beneath identical coverings, arranged without the distinctions through which the living ordinarily recognize one another. [...]

The State of Michigan has an opportunity to go above and beyond the minimum for all its voters. Given the stakes of the upcoming 2026 midterm elections and the challenges it will likely present, Michigan must expand early in-person voting beyond the mandatory nine days, up to the full 29 days authorized by law. Nationwide, [...]

Article 14(3)(f) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) guarantees free interpreter assistance to defendants who cannot understand or speak the language used in court. When a state fails to provide it, the obligation remains, but the practical burden falls on the defendant. Having faced criminal charges in Taiwan, a country whose [...]

As a US immigration lawyer who has spent years dealing with visa problems involving Russian citizens, I initially saw the recent report concerning Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov as another consular issue. Once I started looking at the rules that apply, however, it became clear that ordinary visa law only takes the analysis so [...]

In this four-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Here, in Part 1, he makes the case. Part 2 puts it to work on 24 years of [...]

“A government of laws, and not of men.” John Adams (1775) What if US President Donald J. Trump gives the order to launch nuclear weapons? If the order appeared incoherent or irrational to designated commanders, would these military officers still follow it without question, on decisional “autopilot”? Or would they correctly acknowledge that chain-of-command obligations [...]