The 30th Conference of the Parties concluded in Brazil this month, with delegates focused on reinforcing the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Central to this year’s negotiations: pressing member states to commit to more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs. In the lead-up to COP30, JURIST spoke with Dr. David [...]

Editor’s Note: This explainer is published ahead of the November 12, 2025 Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of Ghana’s deportation agreement with the United States. In mid-2025, Ghana entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Repatriation and Temporary Hosting of West African Nationals with the US, to accept deportees and host certain West [...]

A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala and minority Tamil communities—it has fallen short in terms of delivering on its sweeping promises. As the first party to govern Sri Lanka outside the two-party system, the [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Professor Dr. John D. Ciorciari, Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University Bloomington on the practical challenges of prosecuting genocide and war crimes in Asia. While international courts have established legal frameworks for addressing mass atrocities, their application in Asia faces distinct obstacles shaped by regional politics and diplomatic [...]

In an interview with JURIST’s Divyabharthi Baradhan, Professor Manlio Graziano,* an expert in geopolitics at Sciences Po Paris, explores whether the two-state solution is an effective means of bringing lasting peace between the two states, taking into account the historical context, power dynamics, as well as lessons learned from other state partitions in the past. [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday, November 5, in a pair of cases challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose broad tariffs on nearly all imported goods. The consolidated cases, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., ask whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) allows [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Dr Carrie McDougall, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School on the prosecution of the crime of aggression under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The prosecution of the crime of aggression, enshrined under Article 8bis of the Rome Statute has gained renewed interest within the international community [...]

In courtrooms from Birmingham, Alabama, to Santa Maria, California, Thomas Mesereau has faced some of the highest stakes in American criminal law. Renowned for his landmark criminal defense of pop icon Michael Jackson and over two decades representing clients on death row in the Deep South, Mesereau speaks with JURIST’s Senior Editor for Long-Form Content, [...]

Fawzia Koofi has survived assassination attempts, navigated Afghanistan’s turbulent political landscape, and negotiated directly with the Taliban. As a three-time elected member of Afghanistan’s parliament and now an International Relations & Geopolitics speaker, she has been one of the country’s most visible advocates for women’s rights and democratic governance. Now in exile, as the Taliban [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Megumi Ochi, Associate Professor at the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, about the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s expansion of its framework to include intergenerational harm in providing reparations for victims of atrocities against humanity. The topic of intergenerational reparations at the ICC has generated significant discourse over the years, [...]