On September 30, a Delhi High Court bench dismissed the latest bail appeals of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the third such rejection for Khalid and the second for Imam. The bench did not weigh the evidence against them afresh. It held, in its own words, that it was “bound by judicial discipline” to follow [...]

Yesterday, Americans learned that their government plans to broadcast a killing. The Pentagon said Thursday that the December execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be livestreamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had vowed to make the execution public. The proposed spectacle would bring a firing squad into [...]

Medical personnel are protected persons. That principle—rooted in the Geneva Conventions and universally accepted—is now being tested in Iran with the case of Mozhdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a 27-year-old Red Crescent worker whose death sentence was recently upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court. Her prosecution is not only a human‑rights abuse; it is a violation of the [...]

Autonomous systems now write code, diagnose illness, drive vehicles, and trade securities with steadily diminishing human oversight. In the event of damage caused by robots, private law’s classical subjects of natural persons and legal entities are not a perfect match. This blog stems from the idea that while machines do not meet all the criteria [...]

The room is dark, and only a little light enters through the windows. A man stands in the middle of it. He is a dictator, and the fear that has taken hold of him is visible now in a way that the authority of his position has perhaps never allowed anyone to see. Outside, voices [...]

Speaking at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, President Donald Trump made a headline-grabbing commitment: should Republicans maintain congressional control (House of Representatives and the Senate) in the upcoming November midterm elections, he would authorize a $5,000 cash distribution to every American adult, to be called the “Trump Dividend.” The next night, [...]

It has been 80 years since the Nuremberg tribunal released its historic judgment, for the first time ruling that those responsible for the worst crimes known to humankind could be held individually criminally liable under international law.  The United States stood at the center of those efforts—establishing the tribunal, providing a judge and a chief [...]

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 [...]