Tracy Harris is a JURIST contributor and a third-year student at the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, and served as a judicial clerk with the Supreme Court of Namibia this summer as part of the inaugural Zaytoun clerkship cohort. This summer, the inaugural cohort of the Joseph E. Zaytoun International Judicial Clerkship [...]

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 [...]

In the early morning hours of September 24, 2026, the Trump administration restored White House access to news networks CNN, MS NOW, and Politico after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s ban on the three news organizations. Despite the restoration of their credentials, subsequent disputes over pool assignments, presidential [...]

Syeda Aamna Hasan is a JURIST correspondent and law graduate working as a legal researcher, covering legal developments in Pakistan. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law. On Wednesday, September 16, Pakistan’s Supreme Court deferred proceedings regarding the medical treatment and the proposed transfer of imprisoned former Prime Minister and founder of Pakistan’s [...]

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 [...]

A motion for retrial was filed by a Taiwan Innocence Project pro bono legal team on September 7 for Lu Cheng—a man executed in 2000 amid concerns over a miscarriage of justice. The motion was supported by five new pieces of evidence. In the press conference and documentary screening earlier this month, the Taiwan Innocence [...]

Kenya marked the 16th anniversary of its 2010 Constitution on August 27 with a familiar ritual, now laced with unease. Sixteen years after Kenyans voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new constitutional order, the country split, once again, into two symbolic rooms. At the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, President William Ruto led the [...]

On August 24, 2026, the United States Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to put on hold a federal preliminary injunction blocking portions of President Trump’s executive directive concerning mail-in voting. In an unsigned per curiam opinion—Latin for “by the court”—the Court concluded that the states had not established the type of injury [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a lawyer and a JURIST correspondent based in Lahore, Pakistan. On August 31, 2026, the Court of Arbitration—a treaty-established tribunal, distinct from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, which administers its proceedings—issued two unanimous rulings with immediate consequences for India and Pakistan. The first held that India’s April [...]

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. Update (Sept. 25, 2026): On September 3, the Supreme Court disposed of the petition, declaring the Bar Council’s August 13 communications “without any [...]