Voimo Tamang is a third-year law student at National Law College and a JURIST correspondent based in Kathmandu, Nepal. On September 24, Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah addressed the 81st United Nations General Assembly to bring the country’s devastating Bhotekoshi–Trishuli floods to the center of the international climate debate. Describing the disaster as a warning [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government resume checking voters’ citizenship against Social Security records, reviving a system a lower court ruled violated privacy laws. The decision comes less than six weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections. The unsigned opinion paused a June 22 order by the US District Court [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Friday found Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and the pair’s now-disbanded  Hong Kong Alliance, guilty of a “subversion” offense under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law (NSL). They each face up to 10 years in prison. Three NSL-designated judges unanimously ruled that the defendants’ advocacy for “the end of [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Monday granted leave to 11 applicants to appeal their national security convictions to the city’s apex court. The applicants were among the 45 pro-democracy activists who were convicted of subversion in November 2024 for their alleged roles in the July 2020 unofficial primary election. The appellate court sided [...]

US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday directing federal agencies to withhold citizenship from certain children born on US soil, reviving a policy the Supreme Court rejected five weeks earlier and setting up a fresh test of how far a president may narrow a constitutional guarantee by decree. The orders follow the court’s [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. As India’s student march enters its third consecutive day, the national capital of Delhi has been swarmed by thousands of “cockroaches.” The term is evocative, having been reclaimed by India’s younger generation in response to remarks made by Chief Justice [...]

A UK court on Thursday sentenced two men for gathering information illegally against Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who are now residing in the country. Justice Cheema-Grubb imposed prison terms of eight and ten years, respectively. In her sentencing remarks, Cheema-Grubb reiterated that the activities of both Chi Leung Wai and Chung Biu Yuen—providing information on [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal on Wednesday unanimously upheld a law prohibiting public advocacy for an election boycott. The court held that the law is a justified infringement on the right to free speech. Chief Justice Andrew Cheung found that the law serves a legitimate aim of protecting the legitimacy of elections by [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned China for banning family members from visiting the resting places of people who perished in the 1989 Tiananmen Square repression. This is the first time in 37 years that the Chinese authorities have banned the visit. According to the Tiananmen Mothers group, the authorities notified family members of people who [...]