Ali Riaz is a political scientist with research interests in South Asian politics, democratization, violent extremism, and Bangladeshi politics. He is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and the President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS). His recent publications include “Pathways [...]

In August 2021, the Taliban regained control of the Afghan capital of Kabul. In the two decades that had passed since their previous rule, a generation of women and girls experienced the gradual but powerful onset of expanded rights and freedoms. After the Taliban’s resurgence, these rights were systematically dismantled vis-a-vis the regime’s strict interpretation [...]

In a recent interview, Charles Moxley, Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, discussed his new book “Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Existential Risks of Nuclear War and Deterrence through a Legal Lens.” This work tackles the critical issue of nuclear weapons from a unique legal perspective, offering insights that challenge conventional thinking on nuclear deterrence. [...]

In this feature article, JURIST’s MariaPaz Rodriguez a student at the facultad de Derecho PUCP and Juan Pablo Villamizar Duran a, tenth-semester law student at the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombia outlines the annulment of Colombia’s Ministry of Equality by the country’s Constitutional Court and critiques the Ministry’s foundational efforts, highlighting the complexities in executing [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov, Senior Editor for Long Form Content at JURIST, recently spoke to Mohammed Ismail Noorzad, a legal contributor to JURIST who after three years of uncertainty and struggle eventually got to Germany from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Now in Berlin, he talked about his departure from Afghanistan, the rule [...]

Justice Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba is a Supreme Court Judge in Zambia. Following eight years as Zambia’s first female High Court Judge, she became Investigator General (Ombudsman) in 1989, serving as International Ombudsman Institute Board Director and Vice-President until 1996. Justice Mumba served on the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 1992 to [...]

What does the new Labour Government have in store for the UK, and what policy changes can we expect will have the most meaningful impact? As was recently argued in an Chatham House publication, the newly formed UK government led by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer brings together a team of legal experts well-versed in [...]

The streets of Bangladesh have seen their share of bloodshed over the past week as more than 100 protesters were killed during mass student demonstrations against a quota system that reserved 30 percent of government positions for Bangladesh Liberation War veterans and their descendants. Although the quota system was largely scaled back by the country’s [...]

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published in June an extensive report concluding that there is strong evidence to suggest that all sides of the 2020-2022 Tigray war committed war crimes – and that Ethiopian and allied forces committed crimes against humanity and acts of genocide against the Tigrayan people. The 80,000 word [...]

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji was the 4th President of the International Criminal Court. He is the Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University and a Special Advisor to the President of the University. From 2012 to 2021, he served as a judge at the ICC, first as a [...]