Former British citizen Shamima Begum launched an appeal Tuesday in an attempt to regain her British citizenship. In February, Begum lost an appeal against the decision to remove her citizenship, following her involvement with the terrorist group ISIS in Syria. In 2015, when Begum was 15 years old, she left the UK to join ISIS [...]

The Supreme Court of Japan ruled Wednesday that a law requiring transgender people to be sterilized in order to legally change their gender was unconstitutional. The case was decided unanimously by all fifteen justices hearing the case, and the law requiring sterilization of transgender individuals is now struck down. Previously, since its introduction in 2004, [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading [...]

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal upheld homosexual couples’ right to inheritance by dismissing on Tuesday an appeal from the Secretary for Justice. The appeal sought to establish that homosexual and heterosexual couples are not entitled to the same rights under Hong Kong’s inheritance laws. The case centered around Edgar Ng and Li Yik Ho’s concern [...]

UN experts warned on Friday that Afghanistan currently faces a “deteriorating human rights situation.” In a report submitted to the UN General Assembly, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennet underscored an array of challenges afflicting Afghanistan, primarily attributable to the policies and actions undertaken by the Taliban as well as persisting humanitarian and economic crises in [...]

A bipartisan group of US legal scholars published a working paper on Wednesday that proposed an 18-year term limit for US Supreme Court justices. The scholars from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences proposed the term limits amidst several ethics scandals with several US Supreme Court justices. The working paper suggests its proposals would [...]

33 US states filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company for social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, on Tuesday over claims that the tech giant consciously tailored and marketed its services to exploit young users for the sake of profit. States such as California, New York, Illinois and the territory of [...]

The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban on Tuesday, voiding certain provisions of the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act. The LIFE Act established certain limitations and provisions surrounding access to abortion within the state of Georgia. The Supreme Court found that the trial court erred in overturning the LIFE Act [...]

Jenna Ellis, one of former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorneys charged in the Georgia election interference case, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Ellis is the third former Trump attorney to plead guilty in the case, with attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro pleading guilty last week. Ellis [...]

Ousted Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was indicted by a Pakistani court Monday for charges of revealing official secrets. If found guilty, Khan, alongside Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, could face the death sentence. Khan and Qureshi are accused of revealing official secrets following Khan’s removal as Prime [...]