Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Amanda Werger reports. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice Monday granted a 10-day injunction preventing truckers and others participating in the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 1L Mélanie Cantin reports. After a second straight weekend of “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa, there seems to be no true end in sight. Ottawa [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Amanda Werger reports. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency for the City of Ottawa at 4:20 PM on Sunday. The statement [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on some recent developments and wonders about the rationale of US policy in Afghanistan.  For privacy and security reasons we are withholding the name and institutional affiliation of our [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this exclusive JURIST dispatch,  law student Theint Sandi Soe tells in her own words, in English, the story of her [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on Tuesday’s self-immolation of a young Myanmar man in Mandalay protesting electricity [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on the one-year anniversary of the military coup on February 1. The [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his perspective on the recent decision by the US Fulbright Program, operated in conjunction with the US Department of State, to suspend the selection of new Fulbright Scholars from [...]

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma reports on the Delhi High Court’s consideration of whether rape within marriage should be criminalized, and comments on extraordinary threats to counsel by parties objecting to their professional positions on the matter argued in court. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. For over two weeks now the Delhi [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, reports from Kyiv. US Secretary of State Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Geneva Friday to discuss the growing threat [...]