Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on Tuesday’s self-immolation of a young Myanmar man in Mandalay protesting electricity [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on the one-year anniversary of the military coup on February 1. The [...]

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 offers his perspective on the recent decision by the US Fulbright Program, operated in conjunction with the US Department of State, to suspend the selection of new Fulbright Scholars from [...]

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma reports on the Delhi High Court’s consideration of whether rape within marriage should be criminalized, and comments on extraordinary threats to counsel by parties objecting to their professional positions on the matter argued in court. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. For over two weeks now the Delhi [...]

Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary.  Today marks the second official day of the “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa. The protestors, initially self-identifying as long-haul truckers opposed to vaccine-related cross-border mandates imposed by Parliament, now appear to have devolved into a cacophony of individuals making complaints about [...]

JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents “on the ground” in those jurisdictions. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles. Earlier this month, Los Angeles County filed a petition in California Superior Court to hold Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva in [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, reports from Kyiv. US Secretary of State Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Geneva Friday to discuss the growing threat [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul discusses the growing impact of the Afghan economic crisis on the country’s children. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only [...]

JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents “on the ground” in those jurisdictions. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles. Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed California’s highly ambitious 2022-23 state budget proposal. Titled “The California Blueprint,” the proposed budget aims [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, reports from Kyiv. On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Minister [...]