Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Tuesday vetoed an anti-corruption measure adopted last month by the country’s National Assembly . The Law for Counteracting Corruption and Forfeiture of the Unlawfully Acquired Property , adopted by the National Assembly on December 20, would have created a single commission charged with investigating high government officials for graft and [...]
The Parliament of Uganda on Tuesday announced that President Yoweri Museveni has assented to a controversial bill removing the presidential age limit of 75 years. Section 102 of the Ugandan Constitution had previously required that a candidate for president be between the ages of thirty-five and seventy-five. The latter provision was especially relevant to Museveni, [...]
Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, passed a constitutional amendment Tuesday regarding status of land in the city of Jerusalem, now requiring a large majority vote of the Knesset to cede any land in Jerusalem to a foreign party. The amendment was passed by a vote of 64 to 51 with one abstaining vote. The amendment affects [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Alireza Ranjbar of the Iranian Association for UN Studies discusses approaches to Iran’s ballistic missile program under international law… Before and after his election as president, Donald Trump has threatened the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) limiting Iran’s ballistic missile ambitions. President Trump has also been trying to challenge and [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a “‘slap in the face’ to victims of human rights abuses.” According to the experts The presidential pardon granted to Alberto Fujimori on politically [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court on Friday ruled that those challenging the state’s 2011 congressional map in League of Women Voters v. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump’s third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated [...]
The lower house of parliament of India, the Lok Sabha , on Thursday passed a bill criminalizing the practice of triple talaq or “instant divorce” whereby a Muslim man could divorce his wife by merely uttering the word “talaq” three times at one go. Titled the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act of [...]
A judge on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court on Friday ruled that those challenging the state’s 2011 congressional map in League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania failed to provide a sufficient standard for determining whether a redistricting plan is unconstitutional or merely political. Judge P. Kevin Brobson issued the court’s assessment of the record [...]
The US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday permanently enjoined Arizona from enforcing its ban on ethnic studies in public schools within the state. More specifically, the court blocked the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction (Superintendent) and the State Board of Education (State Board) from enforcing §15-112 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, [...]
A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a “‘slap in the face’ to victims of human rights abuses.” According to the experts The presidential pardon granted to Alberto Fujimori on politically motivated grounds undermines the work of the Peruvian judiciary [...]
