The year 2025 promises to bring many significant developments in the field of international law. Expect calculated and strategic weaponization of international law. Expect direct and indirect attacks on international law and institutions. Expect attempts to weaken or change international norms and efforts directed at reshaping the existing international order. One of the institutions in [...]
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 regarding the federal government’s request to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship—the constitutional guarantee that virtually all individuals born on US soil automatically become citizens. Oral arguments will be for three consolidated cases: Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington and [...]
In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away their [...]
The battle over whether parents should have more control over their children’s social media accounts is far from over and may actually be heating up. On April 16, 2025, a federal judge permanently blocked Ohio’s so-called teen social media law, which had been scheduled to take effect in January 2024. Ohio is not the only [...]
Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as well as the minority Tamil community, receiving a historic supermajority in the November 2024 Parliamentary elections. This broad mandate across ethnic lines presents a historic opportunity to address [...]
Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s Senior Editor for Long-Form Content, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, about his upcoming book From Independence to Aragalaya: A Modern History of Sri Lanka. In this interview, Salter [...]
As the Trump administration moves forward with its rapid efforts to deport those immigrants—with or without status—whom it deems dangerous or politically problematic, rights groups and immigration lawyers have repeatedly petitioned US courts to ensure due process for all at risk of deportation. These efforts have created a web of overlapping cases that are shaping [...]
In this interview, an anonymous Palestinian legal and political science scholar speaks with Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas about his life in Gaza under Israeli occupation before and after October 7, 2023, his perspective on the Western world’s response to Palestinian suffering, and what he wishes the world knew about Gaza. What was your life [...]
In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away their [...]
Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US We may not have the infrastructure, but we have the will. —Banner held at protests across Syria, April 2025 In an unprecedented wave of demonstrations across government-held territory, the Syrian people have taken to the streets not to challenge their own leadership, but to protest Israel’s ongoing [...]
