JURIST Guest Columnist Eugene Lee of MBK Sports Management discusses whether NCAA student-athletes should be paid … With the proliferation of billion-dollar television contracts and customized branding opportunities in the age of social media, college athletes are receiving more media exposure and generating more revenues for their programs than ever before. However, a dichotomy does [...]
A special anti-terrorism court in Mumbai, India found six men guilty yesterday for the 1993 terrorist bombings in Mumbai , then called Bombay, where almost 300 people were killed and hundreds more were injured. The special court was formed under the order of the Terrorism and Disruptive Activities Act(TADA) , a controversial law that has [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday called on the government of Nigeria to conduct an investigation into the actions of the military that occurred during and throughout the conflict with Boko Haram. AI issued a comprehensive report in 2015 detailing the alleged abuses thousands have suffered by the hand of the Nigerian military due to the [...]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, titled “Expanding Apprenticeships in America,” shifting the federal government’s responsibility of creating and monitoring apprenticeship programs to third party private entities such as businesses, nonprofit organizations, and unions. Under this new system, the third party entities can set their own standards for success and submit their [...]
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general from Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas on Thursday announced joint investigations into the marketing and sales practices of the manufacturers of opioid painkillers. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey stated: “The opioid epidemic is a public health crisis that is claiming lives in our state and across the country, [...]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in a memorandum on Thursday that it will keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in place for the foreseeable future. DACA allows for immigrants who came to the US as children, known as “Dreamers,” to obtain work permits and remain in the country legally. According [...]
A UN-appointed panel of experts released its findings from an investigation regarding human rights violations in Burundi on Thursday. According to the experts, these human rights violations include illegal executions, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary arrests and detention, and orchestrated kidnappings. The experts also attest that many of these violations were committed [...]
The Canadian Senate on Friday approved Bill C-16 , adding “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the list of federally prohibited grounds for discrimination under Canada’s Human Rights Act. In an official statement from the Justice Department of Canada the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Jody Wilson-Raybould, said: The purpose of this [...]
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback allowed a bill that permits public hospitals, mental health facilities and other health-providing facilities to ban concealed weapons, to become law on Thursday without his signature. HB 2278 was passed by Senate on a 24-16 vote. Brownback, a strong gun rights advocate, in a criticized the bill for restricting gun owners’ [...]
Japan’s parliament, the National Diet , passed a controversial “anti-conspiracy” bill on Thursday aimed at improving security and combating terrorism. Critics of the new bill, including the Japanese Bar Association and a UN Special Rapporteur , worry it will be used to curb civil liberties and infringe on privacy rights. The law amends an existing [...]
