James Joseph is UK Senior Correspondent for JURIST. The Government introduced a new Holocaust Memorial Bill to Parliament last week on February 23rd. The bill, called the Holocaust Memorial Act 2023, was launched under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said the Bill would update [...]

Lois Wosu is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Nigeria, and a final year law student at Rivers State University. She reports from Port Harcount, in southern Nigeria. Over 87 million out of the 93 million registered voters will cast their ballots on Saturday (today) to decide who takes over from Nigerian President Major General Muhammadu [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi.  The Supreme Court of India laid down new guidelines Monday on the circumstances of DNA testing to ascertain the paternity of a child while adjudging a [...]

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School.   Anti-choicers are continuing their march toward near-total control over reproductive health in the United States. Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade last June, anti-abortion proponents have turned their attention to trying to ban medication abortion and even birth [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. Here Apoorv Vats, a second-year student at NALSAR University of Law, files from Hyderabad. India’s Supreme Court Friday turned down the names proposed by the Union government in a sealed cover for the constitution of a panel to strengthen regulatory measures and [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Norway. She is a law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo.  On Monday the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) published its 2023 threat assessment. The PST describes several threats to [...]

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. Last weekend two flying objects entered Canadian airspace, with one being shot down Saturday while flying over the Yukon territory, and the other [...]

Australian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Australia. Gwendolyn Devoy is a law student at Newcastle University. She files this dispatch from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.  After the closing of the third block of hearings of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme earlier this month, it has [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Tara O’Sullivan is a law student at Maastricht University. She files this dispatch from Maastricht, Netherlands. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued an Opinion on two legislative proposals from the [...]

James Joseph is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. Leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon resigned in a press conference at her official residence at 11AM UK time. Nicola Sturgeon is the first female First Minister and the first woman to lead any of the devolved UK administrations. Her resignation marks a [...]