Dr. Mohamed Gomaa is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, and a JURIST Correspondent covering Egypt. In a milestone judicial and legislative development, the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) has taken center stage in a high-stakes constitutional review targeting the nation’s foundational property contracts. At the heart of this legal [...]

Jennifer To is a JURIST correspondent for the UK and a law student at the University of Birmingham. On 2 July, the Court of Appeal sentenced two fifteen-year-old boys to four years in jail for committing rape and other sexual offences against two girls in November 2024 and January 2025. The court held that the [...]

Jennifer To is a JURIST correspondent for the UK and a law student at the University of Birmingham. On June 22, Keir Starmer stepped down from his role as Prime Minister of the UK. As the sixth prime minister the UK has seen within 10 years, the current political climate of the UK is uncertain. [...]

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. On June 11, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court delivered a bail order that extends quite a bit further than its [...]

Taiwan withdrew from the 2026 Our Ocean Conference (OOC) held in Mombasa, Kenya, on June 16, after two Taiwanese delegates were denied entry to the conference, and later detained by authorities for over 20 hours. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ocean Affairs Council condemned the Kenyan government for yielding to diplomatic pressure from Beijing. [...]

In a January dispatch by JURIST, we noted that former Ghana Finance Minister Kenneth Ofori-Atta was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuant to Ghana’s December 10 formal extradition request to the US Department of Justice for Ofori-Atta, who faces 78 counts of corruption and corruption-related offenses. However, on June 5, ICE’s removal proceedings against him were terminated after a [...]

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 [...]

Jennifer To is a JURIST correspondent for the UK and a law student at the University of Birmingham. On June 15, the Court of Appeal held that the UK government’s proscription of advocacy group, Palestine Action, was upheld, overturning the High Court’s decision in February that the terror ban was unlawful.  On June 30, 2025, [...]

On Friday, May 29, Ghana’s Parliament considered and passed the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill 2025, after its re-introduction. The bill had previously passed in 2024 but failed to become law due to a lack of assent from the then president. As a result, it lapsed with the Eighth Parliament and required reintroduction and passage by the Ninth [...]

On May 20, Nairobi’s Milimani High Court issued a landmark ruling in Petition E490/2025 that fundamentally reshapes how Kenyan law treats consensual sex among minors. In a judgment delivered by Justice Bahati Mwamuye, the court held that applying Sections 8, 9, and 11 of the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) to teenagers in consensual, close-in-age relationships “violates [...]