In 2012, I authored a book called “Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court, and its Justices are not Judges.” The thesis of the book was that, due to a perfect storm of factors, the Supreme Court in practice makes all-things-considered decisions, not legal decisions, with the only real constraint on the [...]

Amnesty International Tuesday urged Cameroonian authorities to look into human rights violations committed in Anglophone regions of Cameroon. According to their report, armed separatists and the military have been accused of killing, torture, rape and destruction of property. Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Samira Daoud commented: We call on Cameroonian authorities [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Katsiaryna Vasilionak files this dispatch from Vilnius, Lithuania.  During the period of June 23-24, the private military company Wagner, headed by Prigozhin, attempted an armed rebellion in Russia. Alexander Lukashenka [...]

Activist groups filed a complaint on Monday with the US Department of Education against Harvard University, challenging its legacy admissions policy. The complaint comes days after the US Supreme Court rejected the use of race in college admissions, known as affirmative action, upending years of precedent. The lawsuit alleges that applicants who have relatives that [...]

Sharon Basch is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The most recent spate of United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions handed down late last week have left American citizens more divided than ever. Within the last few years, the US Supreme Court has seen a large volume of what are [...]

After seven nights of protests in France over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, French police have arrested a total of more than 3,000 protesters. The protests began after a police officer shot and killed Merzouk, whose parents are from Algeria and Morocco, during a traffic stop on June 27. On Monday, French [...]

Thousands of Australians gathered on Sunday in support of the Yes vote for the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. The rally was organised by the campaign group Yes23, which is run by Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition. The group reported that over 20,000 people were in attendance at events across Australia, [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. On Monday, 3rd July, the High Court of Kenya declared President William Ruto’s appointment of 50 Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) as unconstitutional. In a majority decision (2/3), the judges declared that due to lack of proper public participation as stipulated [...]

Grigory Karasin, head of the international council of Russia’s upper parliamentary house, stated Sunday on his Telegram channel that over 700,000 Ukrainian children had been “given refuge” in Russia. The announcement comes as the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for [...]

UN agencies expressed grave concern on Tuesday about Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operations in Jenin, West Bank, which have led to 10 deaths and approximately 100 injuries so far. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that international humanitarian law must be followed during all military operations. The UN claims that access to the Jenin refugee camp [...]