Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, Afghan lawyer and former UK Chevening Scholar Ahmad Ali Shariati offers a tribute to Sayed Asif Mubtahij Hashimi, Dean of Faculty of Sharia Law at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, who was found dead last Thursday [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week and has now spread elsewhere across the country. Here, 2L Brad Henderson reports. On Sunday the Windsor Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Royal [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 1L Mélanie Cantin reports.  Many things struck me when I walked through the Freedom Convoy encampments on Saturday morning and early afternoon with fellow Ottawa [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Andrew Warkentin reports. He and 1L Mélanie Cantin went into the protest zone in downtown Ottawa Saturday to talk to protesters. Despite an extreme [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week and has now spread elsewhere across the country. Here, 2L Brad Henderson assesses the problematic impact of the protest wave on recent provincial and federal public [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on recent developments in the Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text has only been lightly edited to [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 2L Brad Henderson reports. On Thursday Ontario’s Attorney General successfully petitioned the Ontario Superior Court to issue an order pursuant to section 490.8 of Canada’s [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Amanda Werger reports. In the wake of the rampant hate symbols seen at the “Freedom Convoy”, both the Liberal and NDP parties have plans [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Andrew  Warkintin reports. In a press conference in downtown Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, “Freedom Convoy” organizers and supporters doubled-down, saying they’re still dug in and [...]

Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary.   The Coutts Blockade remains, despite the government of Alberta loosening restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, blockade protestors are saying they will remain until all restrictions are gone, and Justin Trudeau is no longer Prime Minister of Canada. “We’re [...]