Michigan Supreme Court will not block former US President Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot after a group of plaintiffs brought a challenge to disqualify him based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. The court stated that they are “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Izhar Ahmed Khan is a 2022 LL.B. graduate of the Pakistan College of Law (University of London International Program). Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the [...]

The Canadian government has offered to provide a matched settlement to Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig on Tuesday following their incarceration in Chinese prisons in 2018, according to government sources for Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. The two Canadians were charged with espionage and a breach of state secrets amidst a dispute between Canada [...]

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), the political party of detained ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday to find the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and administration members in contempt for violating the court’s December 22 order directing the ECP to ensure fair grounds for the upcoming general election. The PTI [...]

The President of India Droupadi Murmu assented Monday to the controversial Telecommunications Bill, 2023, which aims to reform the telecommunications sector in India. The bill was passed by the lower house of India’s Parliament, the Lok Sabha, on December 20 through a voice vote amidst a record suspension of MPs from the opposition for protesting [...]

The Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee approved Sweden’s NATO membership on Tuesday. This is the first step in Türkiye’s process to full approval, which entails submission to the General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament, followed by ratification from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Upon successful ratification, Hungary will be the final NATO member to approve Sweden’s [...]

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement to the press on Monday that it is assisting local law enforcement in investigating threats against the Colorado Supreme Court. The announcement comes almost a week after the court disqualified former US President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot for the 2024 presidential [...]

India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. The president’s assent extends to three bills: the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill (BSB), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The BSB and BNS are slated to replace the colonial-era Indian Evidence Act of 1872 [...]

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow ruled to arrest Ukrainian Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov in absentia for the second time this year, accusing him of committing over 104 crimes including acts of terror. Budanov, who heads the Ukrainian intelligence agency Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR), has been involved [...]

At a press conference Tuesday, the Vice Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that planned protests against the electoral commission (CENI) would not be permitted. The protest, which was planned to take place in Kinshasa, was called by five oppositional candidates to incumbent Felix Tshisekedi. Early results from the December 20 [...]