The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. India’s Lok Sabha, or House of the People, is currently in the midst of its Budget Session, with parliamentarians convening to discuss and deliberate policy matters cutting across party lines. Last Tuesday, the government introduced [...]
The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to partially lift three nationwide injunctions that have blocked the implementation of an executive order on birthright citizenship, according to court documents filed Thursday. Birthright citizenship is the legal principle that grants automatic US citizenship to nearly anyone born on US soil. Narrow [...]
Daniel Kim, Tyler Li, Drew Meetze and Christine Yang are law students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. They filed this joint dispatch for JURIST from Ottawa. We attended the courtroom at the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in Ottawa last Tuesday and Wednesday to hear oral arguments in Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia. Cases [...]
Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, a day ahead of the fourth anniversary of the coup that brought it to power. The move was reported by the state-owned Myawaddy Media on Friday. The military claimed that the extension is necessary to ensure the stability and peace of the [...]
In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]
US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth under age 19 and block federal funding for such treatments. The order requires federal health programs to exclude coverage for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for minors beginning in 2026. Key provisions [...]
Human rights faced severe tests worldwide in 2024, with democratic institutions under strain and humanitarian law repeatedly violated in major conflicts, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual report released Thursday. The 546-page “World Report 2025” reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries, emphasizing the devastating human tolls of conflicts in Gaza, [...]
Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to end hostilities that have raged between them for 15 months, as announced by various senior US officials. During a confirmation hearing for Marco Rubio, who has been nominated by incoming president Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of State, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Jim Risch briefly [...]
The US saw a slight increase in new death sentences in 2024 while executions remained near historic lows, according to a year-end report released Thursday by the Death Penalty Information Center. Twenty-six new death sentences were handed down in 2024, up from the previous year, though the overall death row population continued its decades-long decline [...]
