President Biden announced Monday a renewed push to curb gun violence through legislation and congressional spending in a statement mourning the four-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting. The Parkland shooting occurred in 2018 at Stoneman Douglas High School. A gunman shot and killed 17 people and injured 17 others. The shooting spurred a period of [...]

In an open letter, 21 Canadian laws firms Monday urged the government to “respond meaningfully to the crisis in Afghanistan.” The letter calls on the Canadian government to “satisfy fully its promise of resettlement – effectively, efficiently, and without delay.” The letter addressed to the government by a group of Canadian national and regional law [...]

An ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Monday issued a decision allowing 15-year old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to compete in the ongoing 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. A urine sample taken from Valieva during the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships tested positive for a banned heart medication, trimetazidine. The Russian [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Tanya Levchinskaya, a law student at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, offers her perspective from the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolitan area. Today, the situation in Ukraine cannot be [...]

From New Delhi, India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist reports for JURIST on recent legal developments surrounding Karnataka state’s “hijab row,” removal or reduction of COVID-19 restrictions and the resignation of a high court justice who became nationally notorious for her judgment in a child sexual assault case. The Karnataka High Court is currently tending to [...]

The Digital Market Act (DMA) is a legislative proposal initiated in the European Union (EU) that aims to create a level playing field among various small and large entities in the EU digital economy. It was introduced on December 15, 2020 by the European Commission to ensure fair and contestable Digital Markets. The proposal cleared [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday that a group of migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh are initiating legal action against British household appliances company Dyson over allegations of forced labor, unsanitary living conditions, dangerous working conditions, and other claims. The plaintiffs formerly worked at ATA Industrial, a major electronics manufacturer in Malaysia, predominantly supplying [...]

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, announced Sunday that he had ordered full action be taken against a mob who lynched a mentally ill man for burning pages of the Qur’an in Khanewal district of Punjab last week. The man was arrested for a violation of Pakistan’s strict anti-blasphemy laws, which penalize defiling a [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, Afghan lawyer and former UK Chevening Scholar Ahmad Ali Shariati offers a tribute to Sayed Asif Mubtahij Hashimi, Dean of Faculty of Sharia Law at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, who was found dead last Thursday [...]

Voters in Switzerland Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative attempting to impose a complete ban on all kinds of experimentation on humans and animals. The initiative also included a ban on the import of any new products that were developed using such testing. About 44 percent of the eligible voters participated in the referendum. According to [...]