2021 is ending sadly for Americans who believe in the rule of law, the supremacy of constitutional rights and/or the institutional authority and reputation of the US Supreme Court. On September 1 and again on December 10, five Supreme Court Justices essentially hoisted the white flag of surrender when presented with different challenges to S.B. [...]

A war crimes prosecutor Wednesday indicted nine Bosnian Serbs for killing about 100 Muslim Bosniaks during the Bosnian War, according to Reuters. All nine are men who served in the Bosnian Serb army and are accused of killing dozens of Muslim civilians, including seven entire families, women, the elderly and children. The civilians they allegedly [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female law student reports on what she witnessed during her second visit to the passport office in one of the country’s major cities. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding her name. The [...]

Exercising a form of injunction reserved for exceptionally serious cases, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR, Court) has instructed Russia to halt efforts to shutter Memorial International and its subsidiary organization, the Court announced Wednesday. The move followed two high-profile decisions by Russian courts this week to dissolve respected non-governmental organizations that were created [...]

Australia’s historic Old Parliament House caught fire Thursday during protests by a mix of activists. Reporters on the scene from 7NEWS Australia cited “conflicting reports” about the fire’s origin and the protestors’ identities. Protestors performed a small, traditional smoking ceremony outside of the building. According to Sky News, ACT Commander Linda Champion said police approved [...]

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Wednesday called on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong to release several arrested journalists. After Hong Kong authorities raided Stand News and arrested seven senior staff members, Blinken released a statement asking that the PRC and Hong Kong stop targeting free and independent media. The statement also [...]

The Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition (PDRC) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) released a statement Wednesday warning against the passage of Israel’s “Facebook law.” According to the groups, the proposed law “grants Israeli courts the power to demand the removal of user-generated content on social media content platforms that can be perceived as [...]

A federal jury Wednesday found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on five of six counts, including sex trafficking, in a case related to crimes she committed with Jeffrey Epstein, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Maxwell was on trial for recruiting and grooming four teenagers between 1994 and 2004 for [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office erred when it dismissed opposition by Intel Corporation to potential patents by Qualcomm Incorporated. The Federal Circuit released two rulings over the tech companies’ patent disputes, one regarding multi-processor systems and the other regarding radio [...]

German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann announced Tuesday that the German legislature must take action to protect disabled patients and patients with pre-existing conditions in the event of triage caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Buschmann’s proclamation comes after an identical ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court. The Federal Constitutional Court consists of sixteen justices divided [...]