In this piece Chris Blackburn, Communications Director of the European Bangladesh Forum and co-founder of Global Friends of Afghanistan, highlights the severe human rights abuses in Pakistan, including the misuse of blasphemy laws and the repression of political movements and activists, and calls for international actions such as Pakistan’s suspension from the Commonwealth to pressure [...]

In this commentary, JURIST editor Caspian Rive a law and history honours student at Victoria University of Wellington argues that the New Zealand government should abandon the Treaty Principles Bill before it reaches Parliament. In Aotearoa New Zealand, there is no part of the constitution more wilfully misremembered than te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of [...]

Overview Recent developments in European Union migration and asylum policy have stirred significant political debate and actions among member states. The Netherlands has signaled a potential withdrawal from future treaty modifications in EU migration law. Hungary has supported this sentiment. Concurrently, Germany has intensified border controls amidst rising right-wing political influence, and Italy has temporarily [...]

In this long read by James Joseph, Managing Editor for Long-Form Content and Lilian Trickey, a student at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, they unpack the case of whether removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords is a welcome democratic reform or risks undermining democracy.  In a move that would shake up [...]

Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan is experiencing severe human rights abuses, notably against women and ethnic minorities, amid socio-political and humanitarian crises. In this piece, the authors analyze the severe human rights challenges in Afghanistan, particularly focusing on the plight of women under the Taliban and historical patterns of gender inequality. They propose federalism as a [...]

This week Hong Kong’s highest court delivered a landmark decision with profound implications for its judicial landscape, the preservation of fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. But the ruling also demonstrates wider issues of CCP influence across the world. In this piece, I reflect on the unfolding news of UK judges sitting in Hong [...]

In this article Elliott Michaud, a law graduate of the Universite Cote d’Azur in France, examines the pervasive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past 18 months, highlighting advancements and concerns associated with its rapid integration into various sectors such as healthcare, law, media, and transportation, and the European Union’s proactive approach to AI [...]

The author, a visiting scholar at Cornell University School of Law, explores the impact on three years of since the Taliban banned education for girls in Afghanistan. It has been three years that the Taliban imposed a ban on secondary and university education for girls in Afghanistan. The initial ban was decreed by the Taliban’s [...]

In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 [...]

Here, the author Pitasanna Shanmugathas a graduate from Vermont Law looks at the reprisals faced by prominent whistleblowers in the wake of Julian Assange’s release, and the threat whistleblower prosecutions raise to media freedom and the principles of transparency and accountability in government… The release of Julian Assange after years of legal battles highlights the [...]