In this interview, national security lawyer Fahad Ansari speaks with JURIST News Associate Editorial Director, Alanah Vargas, about the transformation of the London-based law firm Riverway Law into Riverway to the Sea—a movement-embedded legal training and advocacy organization dedicated to confronting Zionism, and defending Palestinian liberation and anti-colonial resistance. He explains how the organization is [...]

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a death penalty researcher and law professor, explains how lethal injection is based on “fake science” rather than medical expertise, details the extensive secrecy measures [...]

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited living intellectuals, described by The New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” and widely regarded as the father of modern linguistics. Author of numerous influential works, including Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival, and Who Rules the World?, Chomsky has shaped both linguistic theory and [...]

Ten years ago, world leaders in Paris committed to limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Since then, the average global temperature was recorded above 1.5°C for the first time in 2024, prompting questions about the relevance of this target. However, a new report [...]

The 30th Conference of the Parties concluded in Brazil this month, with delegates focused on reinforcing the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Central to this year’s negotiations: pressing member states to commit to more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs. In the lead-up to COP30, JURIST spoke with Dr. David [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Professor Dr. John D. Ciorciari, Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University Bloomington on the practical challenges of prosecuting genocide and war crimes in Asia. While international courts have established legal frameworks for addressing mass atrocities, their application in Asia faces distinct obstacles shaped by regional politics and diplomatic [...]

In an interview with JURIST’s Divyabharthi Baradhan, Professor Manlio Graziano,* an expert in geopolitics at Sciences Po Paris, explores whether the two-state solution is an effective means of bringing lasting peace between the two states, taking into account the historical context, power dynamics, as well as lessons learned from other state partitions in the past. [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Dr Carrie McDougall, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School on the prosecution of the crime of aggression under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The prosecution of the crime of aggression, enshrined under Article 8bis of the Rome Statute has gained renewed interest within the international community [...]

In courtrooms from Birmingham, Alabama, to Santa Maria, California, Thomas Mesereau has faced some of the highest stakes in American criminal law. Renowned for his landmark criminal defense of pop icon Michael Jackson and over two decades representing clients on death row in the Deep South, Mesereau speaks with JURIST’s Senior Editor for Long-Form Content, [...]

Fawzia Koofi has survived assassination attempts, navigated Afghanistan’s turbulent political landscape, and negotiated directly with the Taliban. As a three-time elected member of Afghanistan’s parliament and now an International Relations & Geopolitics speaker, she has been one of the country’s most visible advocates for women’s rights and democratic governance. Now in exile, as the Taliban [...]