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Peru dispatch: protesters demand new elections as death toll from political violence surges under newly sworn-in president
Anjana Meza is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Lima, and a law student in the Facultad de Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After Dina Boluarte was sworn in as president of Peru earlier this month, on December 10, various protests (More) |
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Former guerrilla unit commander found guilty of war crimes by special court investigating Kosovo War
Trial Panel I Friday announced its judgement in Specialist Prosecutor v. Salih Mustafa, finding Mustafa guilty of four counts of war crimes including arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder. The verdict is the first case at the Kosov (More) |
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Five Lousiana law enforcement officers indicted for deadly 2019 arrest of Black driver Ronald Greene
A Union Parish, Louisiana, grand jury Thursday indicted five Louisiana State Police (LSP) officers relating to the 2019 death of Black driver Ronald Greene in police custody. Greene died on a roadside in northeast Louisiana, and authorities initially (More) |
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US Supreme Court agrees to hear three additional cases in 2023
The US Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to add three cases to its 2023 docket addressing issues of securities law, the Confrontation Clause of the US Constitution and procedural remedies. The court has not yet announced when oral arguments will be heard. (More) |
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Afghanistan dispatch: current international aid is not enough to prevent economic crisis
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 reports on the inadequacy of current international aid to address the country's (More) |
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Pakistan dispatch: PM urged climate solidarity and climate justice at COP27 as Pakistan recovers from massive floods
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and pertaining to their country. University of London law graduate Seemal Hameed files this dispatch from Islamabad. Climate change is an existential threa (More) |
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US dispatch: 'independent state legislature' theory raised by Moore v. Harper threatens US election administration
Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. On Wednesday, December 7, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a fringe legal idea called the independent state legislature theor (More) |
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EU members and agencies accused of 'atrocious crimes' against Libyan refugees
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) Wednesday filed a criminal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the “atrocious crimes” of detaining and intercepting Libyan refugees and returning refugees to Libya. (More) |
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After the American Election: Overcoming Plague, Chaos and "Mass"
"The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh." - Jose Ortega y'Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture of democracy. Nonethel (More) |
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A Practical and Constitutional Proposal for Reparations for African-Americans
Responding to the discussions on Reparations are replete while the appalling reality on the ground is not in doubt, to be of assistance and subject to the wisdom of people who have been working on this far longer than me I put on my Business School h (More) |
Iraq negotiated independence from Britain under treaty
On December 14, 1927, Iraqi and British officials agreed to a new treaty under which Britain would recognize the independence of Iraq and promised to support its admission into the League of Nations in 1932.
In return, Iraq granted the British three new airbases in Iraq and agreed that British officers should train the Iraqi army. Learn more about Iraq's British heritage.
