The German 2nd Chamber of the Second Senate Monday rejected a constitutional complaint surrounding the decision against the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in their recent trial. Their complaint challenged the Munich Higher Regional Court’s decision by claiming that the defendant’s constitutional rights had been violated by not granting her a fair hearing. The Munich regional court [...]

James Ekin is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST.   After Liz Truss’s announcement last week of her intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Conservative party hopefuls are in a race to succeed her as both party leader and the occupant of No. 10.   Under Conservative Party rules, candidates for the leadership [...]

Former South African president Jacob Zuma Saturday accused his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa of treason and corruption. Speaking for the first time since serving a 15-month jail term for contempt of court, Zuma declared, “o president should conduct private business while in office. It is not allowed. Our country’s problems are too big for a [...]

Following a unanimous vote on October 13, the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol Committee Friday issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump regarding his potential involvement in 2021 attack. The subpoena, signed by Chairman Bennie Thompson, discusses Trump’s false assertions of election fraud and their contribution to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Friday temporarily stayed the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina sued President Joe Biden, asserting the plan poses a threat of imminent harm in the form of lost tax revenue, is an unlawful regulatory action and that [...]

Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Connecticut school shooting filed a motion Friday asking a Connecticut judge to order controversial talk radio host Alex Jones to pay hefty punitive damages, on top of the nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages Jones has been ordered to pay by a jury in the defamation [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. University of London law graduate Seemal Hameed files this dispatch from Islamabad.  On Friday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan from being a member of the Parliament and [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states.  Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece.  On September 17, 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, [...]

Brazil’s national electoral authority Thursday approved rules to limit online disinformation, targeting “the systematic production of misinformation, characterized by the persistent publication of false or decontextualized information about the electoral process.” The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) unanimously approved rules to maintain the integrity of the upcoming electoral process by fighting against the spread of misinformation that [...]

Georgia sheriff Victor Hill defended himself Thursday at his US federal trial where he has been charged with violating four detainee’s civil rights. Hill was indicted in 2021 for depriving liberty without due process of the law which includes the right to be free from use of unreasonable force by law enforcement officers. Hill worked for [...]