The US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions on three individuals and five entities associated with corruption in the South American country of Paraguay. The sanctions were made under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which empowers Treasury to sanction individuals and entities accused of human rights abuses, including corruption. [...]
President Qaies Saied of Tunisia claimed he was acting constitutionally when he arrogated broad powers for himself on July 25, after months of stalemate among Tunisia’s governing institutions and amid a deepening Covid-19 crisis. The constitutional provision he invoked states that after 30 days, the Constitutional Court, upon a request from the Parliament, is to [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly [...]
Mergers & Acquisitions account for a significant portion of a nation’s gross domestic product particularly in developing industrial economies. The reforms processes initiated by the Government of India since 1991 has influenced the functioning and governance of Indian enterprises resulting in the adoption of different M&A strategies by the corporate enterprises refocusing on global competitiveness, [...]
The Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation (“the Ministry”) on Friday released “liberalised” Drone Rules, which will regulate the ownership and usage of private and commercial drones in the country. The new rules will replace the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, released in March. The academia, startups, end-users and other stakeholders viewed the previous rules as restrictive [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that a 2017 phone call between former president Donald Trump and then National Security Agency (NSA) Director, Admiral Michael Rogers, would remain privileged due to a lack of a binding “misconduct exception” to a Freedom of Information Act exemption [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in currently Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective less than two hours after a major bombing at the Kabul airport Thursday that killed dozens and wounded [...]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday issued an executive order maintaining the current policy prohibiting the mandating of any COVID-19 vaccinations by any government entity in the state. In the order, Abbott said, “vaccine requirements and exemptions have historically been determined by the legislature, and their involvement is particularly important to avoid a patchwork of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed mass shooter Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence. The court released a 149-page opinion detailing its affirmation. The judges emphasized that they chose to affirm Roof’s conviction “not as a product of emotion but through a thorough analytical process.” Roof was convicted of [...]
The European Court of Human Rights asked the Polish and Latvian governments on Wednesday to intervene to help migrants camped on the Belarus border. Neither Latvia nor Poland is allowing the migrants, who are mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, into their countries, and the Baltic states have accused Belarus of using the migrants as a [...]
