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The Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) in Bucharest marked its 12th anniversary on April 21 with a high-level meeting hosted by Romania’s National Institute of Magistracy (INM). Over 110 participants from Romanian authorities, EU bodies, and international organizations discussed cybercrime challenges, electronic evidence, disinformation, and online violence, while advancing cooperation. C-PROC has supported [...]

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Victor Qiu is a JURIST correspondent and practicing lawyer based in Washington, DC, United States. Last week, I attended the first oral argument of the US Supreme Court’s April sitting, Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a case that could clarify the scope of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) disgorgement authority and its relationship [...]

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Griffins Abuora is a Kenya School of Law student based in Kisumu, where he reports on legal, policy, and human rights developments in Kenya for JURIST. This dispatch is offered in both English and Swahili below.  ENGLISH On April 24, Kenya’s Court of Appeal sitting in Malindi delivered a landmark judgment that reshapes the country’s [...]

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Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. Harish Rana, the first person in India to obtain legal authorization for passive euthanasia, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences [...]

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Note: This story is part of a series of coverage from the first week of the 2026 UN Women’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). Read Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. The fourth day of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) brought together a series of sessions tackling two urgent [...]

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Note: This story is part of a series of coverage from the first week of the 2026 UN Women’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). Read Day 1 and Day 2. The third day of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) featured a day-long, two-part session with parliamentarians [...]

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While the war in Ukraine has reignited the threat of violent border shifts along Europe’s eastern frontier, Romania and Moldova are doubling down on a different kind of transformation: European integration. A recent joint meeting of the legal committees of Romania and Moldova in Chișinău serves as a powerful signal of this trajectory. Focused on [...]

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Griffins is a JURIST correspondent and law student at the Kenya School of Law, based in Kisumu, where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in Kenya. On March 9, Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) rolled out a fully automated Instant Fines Traffic Management System, marking a bold shift in traffic enforcement. [...]

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Lela Reynolds is a second-year law student at Purdue Global Law School and a US-based paralegal in Los Angeles, California, covering US legal developments for JURIST. On April 2, President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi following a reported confrontation over the pace of politically sensitive prosecutions, raising immediate questions about the traditional firewall [...]

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