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Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. On Tuesday, October 3, Accra, Ghana’s capital and a city of well over two million people, bore witness to two impactful protests. The [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that the nation’s upcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament will take place on October 14, 2023. Australia’s constitution can be amended only by way of referendum, invoked by section 128 of the Australian Constitution. Significantly, a referendum requires that the proposed constitutional change is approved by a [...]

Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. Over the weekend, hundreds of people thronged the streets of Ghana’s capital, Accra, to protest the poor socioeconomic conditions in the country. As [...]

Editor’s note on historical context: On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with Germany, France and Italy, which allowed Berlin to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Upon his return, Chamberlain said of the agreement: “…for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina.   In the early morning of September 24, 2023, the peaceful village of Banjska near Kosovo’s Serbian border was a target of terrorist attacks which left one Kosovo [...]

Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra.  Last Friday, September 15th, Ghana’s Armed Forces assured the country in an interview with the leadership of the Ghana Journalists Association that there [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia. On Tuesday, September 5, the situation in Latvia regarding the new Latvian Immigration Law took a significant turn. Controversial revisions to the law implemented on September 24, 2022 required Russian citizens [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel.   The Minister for Public Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, went on record in an August [...]

Local police announced Monday that an active shooter on the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Chapel Hill campus shot and killed a faculty member. Active shooter alerts and sirens caused students, staff and faculty members at the famed southern US university to barricade themselves into classrooms and offices Monday afternoon. About an hour and a [...]

Prior to Donald Trump, no US president — current or former — had ever been indicted. That all changed on April 4 when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that a New York grand jury had indicted Trump on 34 criminal counts. Since then, he has been the subject of three additional criminal indictments. He [...]