In the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s December 2024 ouster and flight to Moscow, JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Dr. Patrick Kroker, Senior Legal Advisor in the International Crimes and Accountability program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, about universal jurisdiction’s role in pursuing justice for Syrian crimes. Universal jurisdiction empowers [...]

Fawzia Koofi is a former Afghan MP, the first ever female Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, and a veteran human rights advocate whose career embodies the fragile yet essential relationship between law and justice in conflict zones. Elected to the Afghan National Assembly in 2005, she spent nearly two decades drafting and championing legislation [...]

As Israeli forces launched a major ground offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, a United Nations investigative commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The commission’s determination carries no immediate legal enforcement power, but creates significant obligations for countries around the world under international law. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry [...]

Work and the labor market dominate conversations across Egypt. This year has marked a turning point, with a comprehensive new labor law designed to keep pace with today’s economic realities. Classified under Article 121 of the Egyptian Constitution as a “complementary law to the Constitution,” the Labor Law governs one of the country’s most fundamental [...]

Corruption constitutes a multifaceted socio-political issue that significantly impacts the political, economic, and social dimensions of society. Its emergence is rooted in the distortion of established management practices and mechanisms and persists as a global challenge, influencing nations irrespective of their levels of economic development. Notably, even the most developed democracies are susceptible to corruption. [...]

In a joint interview, JURIST Chief of Staff for Africa Lana Osei and Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas speak with veteran Ghanaian journalist Kwaku Sakyi-Danso as he reflects on his 24-year career covering Ghana’s Parliament during the media’s evolution from military to civilian rule. He speaks candidly about the threat untrained bloggers pose to public [...]

From defending detainees held at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—many of whom were subjected to secret detention and torture by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials—to confronting American politicians over drone strikes that killed civilians in Pakistan, Alka Pradhan has built her career challenging the legal framework created after former US President [...]

On July 29, 1999, Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam, a distinguished Sri Lankan Tamil constitutional lawyer, academic, and parliamentarian, was assassinated by the Tamil separatist rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). His killing was in retaliation for his efforts to resolve Sri Lanka’s decades-long ethnic conflict through democratic, power-sharing constitutional reforms within a united [...]

As the executive branch continues to test the boundaries of its authority with increasing brazenness, a growing number of federal judges have responded with remarkable clarity and courage. Their opinions reflect not only legal reasoning, but deep conviction in the constitutional principles they are sworn to uphold. This evolving collection of judicial statements documents how [...]

Two years into Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are dead, and the rest of the population is facing increasingly dire humanitarian circumstances. Food scarcity experts at the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Tuesday said “the worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza [...]