Reports from our correspondents around the world

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 3L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.  Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code and the Canada Industrial Relations Board Regulations, 2012, is currently before [...]

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Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a law student at the University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore.  Last week on November 12, the Islamabad High Court issued a stay order [...]

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

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Wednesday at 7 pm, MPs in the House of Commons voted on “Amendment H” tabled by the Scottish National Party to the traditional motion on the King’s Speech. This amendment called on the government to “join with the international community in urgently pressing all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire” between Israel and Gaza. [...]

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

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James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor and a Ph.D. student at King’s College London. In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched a withering attack on the PM’s ability to uphold law and order, presenting the most pressing challenge to his premiership to date. This comes off [...]

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An estimated 300,000 people attended a pro-Palestinian protest Saturday afternoon in London, according to the Metropolitan Police. While hundreds of thousands marched peacefully through the capital, the day was marred by far-right clashes with police in the morning, as well as arrests being made at the march itself later in the day. The week prior [...]

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Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia. Last Wednesday, November 8, the European Commission adopted the 2023 Enlargement Agenda, highlighting certain countries’ progress towards  EU accession. Notably, Ukraine and Moldova received positive proposals for showing significant progress. Despite [...]

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Joshua Villanueva is a JURIST Assistant Editor and a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), He files this dispatch from San Francisco.  Beginning this weekend, world leaders will gather in San Francisco for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week, the largest international event this vibrant city will have witnessed since [...]

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Mykyta Vorobiov is a political science student at Bard College, Berlin. He previously studied at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the University of Tartu, and the University of Zagreb.  The EU Crisis Regulation is sometimes called the key element in finalizing the deal on the highly anticipated Migration [...]

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