The UK Business and Trade Secretary announced Wednesday that the UK will reduce the number of EU laws being revoked or replaced from 4,000 to 600 by the end of the year. Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch says that this is partly due to ‘risks of legal uncertainty,’ but Badenoch reiterates that the government will aim [...]

A Trump-era deportation policy known as Title 42 is set to expire on Thursday night. Ahead of its expiration, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas held a press conference at the White House where he said the Biden administration was “clear-eyed about the challenges we are likely to face in the days and weeks [...]

The US Supreme Court upheld a California law on Thursday that requires farms to provide their livestock, particularly pigs, with enough room to move if they want to sell their products in California markets. The law, Proposition 12, was set to go into effect in September 2022, but the pork industry, led by the National [...]

The US Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday that a transgender migrant may appeal a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision that denied her relief from deportation. The court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that it did not have jurisdiction over Estrella Santos-Zacaria’s request for judicial review. Santos-Zacaria petitioned the [...]

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law Wednesday that will provide disability benefits to first responders who contracted COVID-19 before vaccines were available. House Bill (HB) 3162, known as the Act-of-Duty Bill, previously only provided disability pay for various physical and mental conditions, including heart attacks. Specifically, the law provides benefits for those [...]

A critical presidential election is scheduled to take place on May 14 in Turkey. Nonetheless, there have been heated discussions over the constitutionality of President Erdogan’s candidacy. Erdogan was elected president for the first time in August 2014, following his role as prime minister beginning in 2003. In June 2018, Erdogan was elected as president [...]

Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared Thursday that the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan was “invalid and unlawful.” Pakistani authorities arrested Khan outside of the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday, sparking protests which continue to brew across the country. Khan appeared before the court Thursday morning. According to the court, Pakistani authorities violated Khan’s “right [...]

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution condemning violations of humanitarian law amid the ongoing violence that has swept Sudan in recent weeks. The resolution, which slammed violations of international law on both sides of the conflict, and also expanded the mandate of an expert monitoring group in the country, was [...]

Civil action and criminal prosecution are the two great substitutes invented by law to replace revenge, a deeply wired instinct among humans expressed in a Mesopotamian maxim, an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. In Pakistan, most ironically, civil litigation and criminal prosecution have become the revenge instrument, particularly among ruling elites fighting [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. The anonymous author of this report notes that “The current state of the country has made using the Internet a bit of a challenge. Internet seems to be slow and there are a lot of [...]