JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Hu of Washington and Lee University School of Law, discusses President Trump’s break from post-WWII precedent on refugee policy … As “leader of the free world,” every post-World War II US President has expressed some form of public support for refugees through speeches and White House statements. With the refugee crisis [...]

JURIST Guest Kübra Berberoğlu, Oxford Human Rights Law Reporter (OxHRLR), discusses how, in the case of B.L. v. Australia, the HRC has made either a careless or a disappointing start in clarifying how it employs the internal relocation alternative and how this might negatively affect refugee protection under the ICCPR. A longer version of this [...]

Deutsche See, an environmentally conscious fish distributor, became Volkswagen’s first major German customer to sue VW over misrepresenting their vehicles as being environmentally friendly. Deutsche See’s complaint alleged “malicious deception” and was filed at the regional court in Braunschweig, near Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg headquarters. Deutsche See, which leases 500 vehicles from VW, stated that it “only [...]

According to the annual UN report , civilian casualties in Afghanistan for 2016 were at a record high. A total of 3,498 civilians were killed and 7,920 were wounded. Of the dead, 923 were children , as were 2,589 of the injured. The report also documents that the Taliban caused almost two-thirds of the casualties [...]

A Hungarian court in Gyor ordered a retria on Monday over the 2010 toxic red sludge spill that killed ten people in one of the country’s worst environmental disasters. Judge Csilla Zolyomi said that there had been procedural errorsl in the hearing of witnesses and in the court’s justification for acquittal. Monday’s ruling is not [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the government of Myanmar to “urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses” against the Rohingya Muslim population, including sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. According to survivor testimony, the Myanmar army and members of the Border Guard Police “took part in rape, gang rape, invasive [...]

Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long prison terms following allegations of contact with international human rights organizations and media. Two other men, Ahmed al-Musheikhis and [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the implications of revising a lawsuit between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia…According to the former prosecutor of The Hague International Criminal Court (ICC), Geoffrey Nice, there is new evidence based on which Bosnia and Herzegovina could seek [...]

Romania’s Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal code. However, confusion surrounds the announcement as shortly after Iordache’s announcement the Justice Ministry issued a statement that there [...]

A report released Monday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that 4,444 people alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Australia between January 1985 and February 2015. Looking at data going back to 1950, the study found that 7 percent of all priests in Australia were accused in sexual [...]