Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited [...]

The Australian state of South Australia Thursday became the first jurisdiction in the country to formally ban the use of spit hoods on detainees. A spit hood is a mesh-fabric face covering that is fixed to an individual’s neck. The device is used in prisons, immigration detention centers and mental health facilities. The legislation, known [...]

Content Warning: the following story discusses the sexual assault of children. The Supreme Court of India Thursday overturned a judgement by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay and ruled that sexual assault under the Protection of Children of Sexual Offense Act (POSCO) does not require “skin to skin contact.” The Supreme Court examined two [...]

The European Commission Wednesday proposed a new regulation to curb the export of waste to third-party countries. In a statement, Executive Vice-President for European Green Deal Frans Timmermans said, “our new rules to govern waste shipments will boost the circular economy and ensure that waste exports do not harm the environment or human health elsewhere.” [...]

A grand jury in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey Wednesday convicted three El Salvadoran nationals on various Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) charges, including murder in aid of racketeering. The three mens’ crimes stem from their participation in Mara Salvatrucha, a violent international criminal racketeering enterprise commonly known [...]

The Supreme Court of India Wednesday ordered the Tripura police to refrain from taking any coercive measures, including arrest, against two lawyers and one journalist booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967 (UAPA) for their social media posts and reports on the recent communal violence in Tripura. Several reports emerged from Bangladesh last [...]

The highest court in Mexico Tuesday unanimously declared a reform decree that extended the court’s President and Federal Judicial Council Member terms by two years unconstitutional. The Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN)  held that the term extension violated Articles 97 and 100 of the Mexican Constitution. Articles 97 and 100 establish the [...]

“Nothing is real that is not eternal.” Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1921) Though inconspicuous and easily misunderstood, there is no conceivably greater power in world politics than power over death. On its face, this preeminent form of power is problematic (how, after all, can one human being ever offer eternal life to [...]

Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The mandate requires all healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022. The group of [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul offers his observations on the recent rise of drug cultivation in Afghanistan under the previous government and ambivalent Taliban policy on the drug trade. For [...]