The no-knock warrant — a search warrant that authorizes police officers to enter certain premises without knocking and announcing their presence or purpose before entering — is a source of contention in America today. Its element of surprise and extirpative effects makes it a powerful yet contemptible militarized tactic. In this respect, reference is made [...]
![Weaponizing ‘Genocide:’ Post-War International Justice in Putin’s Crosshairs](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/Prisdent_Vladimir_Putin_speech_Crimea_reunification_anniversary_2022_Pic_2.jpeg)
For Oleh Kornat, a lawyer-turned-member of the Ukrainian resistance, a disturbing element of Moscow’s invasion of his country has been its misuse of the term “genocide” to justify it. “Civilians are being targeted. Maternity wards have been attacked. Children with cancer have been displaced. And this has all happened under the guise of Russia’s ostensible [...]
![How the United States Can Use Trade Policy to Prevent a New Sino-Russian Alliance](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/Vladimir_Putin_met_with_Xi_Jinping_in_advance_of_2022_Beijing_Winter_Olympics_1.jpeg)
As Joe Biden prepares to warn Xi Jinping against aiding Russia, it is worth considering what the United States can offer China to entice it away as well. In the days since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, many analysts have grappled with the implications of a new world order defined by an ever more [...]
![Explainer: How EU Policy is Adapting to the Era of Supply Chain Due Diligence Regimes](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/european_union_1647525500.jpg)
On 23 February 2022, the European Union (EU) Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (Draft Directive). When the EU Commission opts for a Directive, in effect the EU is setting a goal that all member states must achieve, but how they get there legislatively is up to each state individually. In an [...]
![EU’s Heroic Embrace of Ukraine’s Refugees Raises Questions on its Treatment of Syrian, Afghan Asylum Seekers](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/Ukraine_IMG_4251_51923457752.jpeg)
The mass exodus of women and children from Ukraine has sparked the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. More than three million refugees have poured out of Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country on February 24. Upwards of 1.8 million of those refugees have crossed into Poland. And [...]
![The Friedman Doctrine in a Moral Age: The Implications of Western Firms’ Mass Exodus From Russia After Ukraine](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/5517333714_35ae9daa1f_o.jpg)
In his epochal, controversial and highly polarizing essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits,” published in the New York Times Magazine some 70 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman argued against the social responsibility of businesses, and explicitly declared that “the business of business is business.” The shareholder value theory of the [...]
![Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Desperate Gamble to Reverse a String of Failures](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/03/2018_inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_47.08.jpg)
In the days that have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many have questioned the implications of this unchecked aggression against a sovereign nation for the post-war international order. Fears have proliferated that international justice is dead, that autocracy has won. But a closer look reveals that this invasion is the product of weakness, not [...]
![Afghan Legal Scholar-in-Exile on Survivor’s Guilt and His Fight for Those Left Behind Under Taliban Rule](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/02/Untitled-design.png)
“Lately, I have been experiencing a strong form of survivors guilt,” said Afghan legal scholar Ahmad Ali Shariati in a recent interview. A recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship, he had just completed his studies for a legal master’s at the University of Aberdeen when the Taliban reclaimed control of Kabul amid the fallout of [...]
![Fractured Verdicts and Hung Assemblies: The Trouble With Navigating Disputed Elections in India, and Some Proposed Solutions](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/02/Indian-constitution.jpeg)
Assembly elections have been announced in five states of India for the month of February: Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand. While the elections are expected to be conducted without any difficulties, one must always prepare for contingencies. Given that India follows a multi-party system, a fractured verdict in elections would not exactly be [...]
Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 13 months in prison by a Hong Kong Court for his role in banned Tiananmen Square vigils last year. He is already serving a prison sentence of 20 months for his participation in unauthorized assemblies during the anti-extradition movement of 2019 and this sentence will not extend [...]