The German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Friday placed the German subsidiary of Russian-owned oil company Rosneft under federal fiduciary management. Rosneft holds roughly 12 percent of German oil refining capacity and controls three oil refineries in Germany of which the government will also partial control. The purpose of the imposition of federal [...]

The French Republic on Wednesday invoked Article 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. A press release from the Hague announced that the French Republic filed the declaration of intervention for the case ‘allegations of genocide under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation)’. [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday announced he had sent two busloads of migrants to the Washington, DC residence of Vice President Kamala Harris in a show of frustration over the state of US immigration policy. The move comes a day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two charter jets full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, [...]

US President Joe Biden, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and railway unions Thursday reached a tentative agreement ahead of a nationwide strike scheduled to begin this Friday. The tentative agreement contains wage increases, bonuses, easements of strict attendance policies with unpaid days off for doctor’s appointments and no increases to copays or deductibles under healthcare [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday rejected a settlement offer from former President Donald Trump’s legal team to end James’ civil investigation into Trump, according to an exclusive report by the NYT. James is now considering suing at least one of Trump’s children—Ivanka, Eric, Donald Jr.— in a separate civil suit. People familiar with [...]

The Supreme Court of the United States Wednesday voted 5-4 to uphold a ruling that Yeshiva University must recognize an LBGTQ student group. The majority stated that the university must pursue a challenge to the lower court’s ruling in state court before entering into federal court. Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor temporarily blocked the order [...]

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School.  Last week, a federal judge agreed with Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review records seized by the FBI during its search of his estate. Judge Aileen M. Cannon also ordered the Justice Department to [...]

In his inaugural video report, JURIST Bangladesh Staff Correspondent Ahmad Rayhan Farhi, a law student at Dhaka University, describes his home country as a land of contradictions, many of which reflect, affect or implicate the law. The video below is followed by a lightly edited transcript of the dispatch.  Bangladesh is a country that is [...]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against ecommerce company Amazon, accusing the company of stifling competition and creating artificial pricing floors. The 84-page complaint was filed in San Francisco Superior Court and argues that Amazon’s anticompetitive practices are in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law and Cartwright Act. The lawsuit mirrors [...]

Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Nastya Moyseyenko, a law student at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Last week, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that there was evidence sufficient to show Russia’s so-called “filtration” of Ukrainian civilians [...]