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JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his personal observations and perspective on an extended power interruption in Kabul due to an apparent attack on a key electricity station. For [...]

The US House of Representatives committee on the January 6 insurrection voted Thursday to hold Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. Bannon, the former CEO of the Trump campaign, is under suspicion because of statements made on his “War Room” podcast on the days leading up to the Capitol riot that [...]

The US House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol on Tuesday voted unanimously to pass a resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find former President Trump’s advisor Steve Bannon in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony pertaining to the [...]

A man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court, claiming that local law enforcement officials conspired with white nationalist militias during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year in Wisconsin. Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer, which led to [...]

India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist reports on the India Supreme Court’s recent expression of its disinclination to recognize virtual court hearings as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. A recent petition filed with the Supreme Court of India by the National Federation of Societies for Fast [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed nine bills into law on Tuesday to reduce single-use trash pollution and support recycling goals, address climate change, and ban the use of Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in products for children and in disposable food packaging. To be advertised or labeled as recyclable, Senate Bill 343 requires products to [...]

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma, a final year law student at Amity Law School, reports on the Supreme Court of India’s response to a recent farmers’ protest against the government in which multiple protesters were killed. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. Yesterday the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of [...]

JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents “on the ground” in those jurisdictions. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles. Less than a month after his recall victory, a re-energized Governor Gavin Newsom has gone on the offensive, signing numerous bills and [...]

As the novel coronavirus flew globally in 2020, triggering widespread infections of the disease labeled COVID-19, a fresh challenge arose concerning how governments and legal experts could face this plague, predominantly in terms of law and rights in the Middle East and the Muslim world. In Islamic law, the Qur’an and the Sunnah (Prophet Mohammad’s [...]

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. The defendants, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, chased Arbery in a pickup truck and fatally shot [...]