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“All our dignity consists in thought.” – Blaise Pascal, Pensées For the most part, penetrating thought on politics remains the veiled province of academic specialists. Though such thought can never become appropriate for any wider consumption by “mass,” it nonetheless warrants a more prominent place in world affairs and international law. Nowhere is this assertion [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Vedika Chawla, a second-year student at the National Law University, Delhi. On Thursday, the Indian Supreme Court ruled in its reproductive rights judgement in X v. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of NCT [...]

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Wednesday banned the organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) for undertaking “unlawful activities” which are “prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and security of the country” and for its alleged connection to the organisations. Under Section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), PFI is banned for five [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Here, Eisha Chaudhry, a law student in the final year of her external LL.B. program at the University of London, reflects on the floods that have lately devastated so much of Pakistan and have prompted [...]

Gaithe Alwahab is a JURIST staff correspondent in Iraq and a law graduate of Al Iraqia University. Here he reports from Baghdad. A version of this dispatch was originally filed as his first regular contribution from Iraq in late August, but circumstances he discusses at the end of this piece pre-empted it.   Iraq has been [...]

Jihene Ferchichi is JURIST’s staff correspondent in Tunisia. She reports from Tunis. Hello everyone, my name is Jihene Ferchichi, a Tunisian practicing lawyer and the holder of an LLM from the University of Pittsburgh in International Studies and Comparative Law. I will be reporting for JURIST on the state of rule of law in Tunisia, [...]

“This is not a bluff,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said of Moscow’s willingness to deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine during a meandering speech on Wednesday, in which he also laid the groundwork for Russia’s annexation of several Ukrainian regions, and announced a partial military mobilization. Hours after Putin’s address, US President Joe Biden referred to [...]

Syed Taha Anzar is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. He is a second-year student in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. The streets of London are packed, with a queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state stretching out for 5 miles and lasting over 15 hours. Those who stand in line [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi.   A war is currently going on Kenya social media. It’s a war between those who are in support of parastatals taking the forefront in Kenya’s economy and those who believe that both parastatals and private owned establishments should work together to further [...]

India’s Allahabad High Court Sunday issued notice to the government of Uttar Pradesh regarding the grossly misconducted magisterial inquiry into the death of a prisoner in May. The court held that the inquiry was a “dereliction of duty and gross abuse of power, affecting the rule of law.” The petitioner’s father, Sudhakar Prasad Dubey, was [...]