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. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited [...]

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. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited [...]

In late August, women law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar wrote an open letter to women law students in Afghanistan, including those also reporting for JURIST, facing an uncertain and potentially grim future under the new Taliban regime. The letter received such a favorable international response that we are republishing it in the original [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – 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. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Myanmar law students continue to report for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military regime that took power from the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. In recent months, armed resistance to the military junta has grown in some northern regions and [...]

Women law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar have written this open letter to women law students in Afghanistan, including those also reporting for JURIST, who face an uncertain and potentially grim future under the new Taliban regime. Given the military coup that suddenly upended human rights and the rule of law in the Southeast [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of the law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar provides an update on the condition and situation of Theint Sandi Soe, the third-year Mandalay University law student who last week was sentenced to three years in jail by a military judge in Mogok Prison. Theint Sandi Soe was arrested in June [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of the law students filing for JURIST from Myanmar reports Tuesday on the rapidly deteriorating conditions there as COVID-19 ravages the population. The public health care system is collapsing, and the military junta is actually making things worse. In the announcement made by the Ministry of Health and Sports at 8 [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Herself now ill with COVID-19 amidst the third wave of the pandemic now raging across Myanmar, one of our law students reporting for JURIST from Yangon comments on the situation there, the economic fallout from the COVID surge, and how the military junta has actually made things worse. All we are hearing [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Myanmar law professor recently dismissed from her university post and now in hiding from the Myanmar military junta discusses the impact of the Myanmar military coup on law professors, law students and general legal education in Myanmar as the military takeover in that country enters its fifth month, with human rights, [...]