James Ekin is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the immigration minister could be summoned to face MPs to explain the “car crash” decisions behind chaos at a migrant holding centre, statistics on which can be found here. This comes after she sent private government documents through her personal email [...]
Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Here, one of them comments on proposed legislation now being steered through the Belarusian parliament that would authorize removal of citizenship from ordinary Belarusians. For privacy and security reasons, we [...]
Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a 2L at the University of Ottawa. Although it has now been over eight months since the end of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, the fallout and consequences of last [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. University of London law graduate Mariyam Taher Qayyum files this dispatch from Islamabad. Religious extremism is on the rise once again in Pakistan, a country that is persistently condemned for its disregard for human rights. The [...]
Justin Lindsay is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. A jury in Michigan found three men guilty Wednesday of providing material support for a terrorist act in connection with the plot to [...]
Sri Lankan law students are reporting for JURIST on the situation in that country since mass protests in July that forced the ouster of sitting Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the imposition of emergency rule and the parliamentary election of current president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Sandun Batagoda, a final year law student at the Faculty of [...]
JURIST staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 1L Morgan Hubbard reports on the first and only scheduled debate between Pennsylvania US Senate candidates John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz. Pennsylvania US Senate candidates John Fetterman (D) [...]
Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next Monday in a case that could have major implications for racial equality and college admissions. The case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad. Two weeks ago, on October 10th, a day after the [...]
JURIST staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 1L JP Leskovich reports on how the counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania is complicated and delayed by the absence of legislative authorization for “pre-canvassing”. Monday was the [...]