Justice Nyaundi of Nairobi’s Milimani High Court on May 29 issued an urgent conservatory order suspending any move to establish the planned US-backed Ebola quarantine center. The conservatory order was granted following a petition by the Katiba Institute, barring officials from opening or approving the facility until the case is fully heard before the Court. [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]

Dr. Mohamed Gomaa is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, and a JURIST Correspondent covering Egypt. In a milestone legislative move, the Egyptian Cabinet officially approved and referred two comprehensive personal status bills—laws that govern domestic and familial matters—to the House of Representatives on May 25. Drafted over the course [...]

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 May 22, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale, referred a set of [...]

On May 18, President Donald Trump moved to voluntarily dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just two days before US District Judge Kathleen Williams imposed a May 20 deadline requiring both sides to argue whether the lawsuit involved unconstitutional collusion or executive self-dealing. The dismissal came as the Department of [...]

Taiwan’s three-day Review Meeting on its National Reports on the Two International Human Rights Covenants concluded, followed by a press conference, on May 15. The review committee expressed concern over the operation of the Constitutional Court, which currently functions with only eight incumbent justices, out of the statutory total of 15. The Constitutional Court had [...]

Taiwan concluded its three-day Review Meeting on the Two International Human Rights Covenants on May 15, followed by a press conference. The death penalty emerged as a primary focus. Taiwan’s Review Report on the Two International Human Rights Covenants is a governmental self-assessment of its compliance with UN international human rights standards—specifically the International Covenant [...]

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. The arrest of five activists in Nairobi on Tuesday, May 12, during the Africa Forward Summit, once again placed Kenya at the center of a difficult debate: how should [...]

Sophia Kuhnke is a law student at Università Bocconi School of Law and a JURIST correspondent covering recent developments in Italy.  On Tuesday, May 12, the Bari Court of Appeal (Corte di Appello di Bari) in southern Italy delivered a ruling legally recognizing three parents for a four-year-old.  This case, serving as a landmark decision [...]

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 [...]