Jamelah Zidan is a US correspondent for JURIST and a law student at Vermont Law and Graduate School. On May 12, NYU Langone Health, a major hospital network in the state of New York, disclosed that it had received a federal grand jury subpoena from prosecutors in Texas state. The subpoena demands the names of [...]

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. The Supreme Court of India delivered strong criticism against two lower courts, ruling that a woman whose dental practice she maintained while living [...]

Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, Day 3, and Day 4. Friday marked the fifth and final day of the first week of CSW70, with panels focusing on young women’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]