Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Late Sunday, as Category 5 Cyclone Mocha bore down on western Myanmar and Bangladesh, one of our correspondents who must remain [...]
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a proposed law that would have imposed rigid new restrictions on abortion access in the state, including a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Announcing a decision at a reproductive rights rally, Cooper indicated that the Republican-introduced bill would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and could [...]
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Olha Chernovol, a Ukrainian lawyer who was forced to leave Ukraine in March 2022 after the Russian invasion and who is now completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She recently [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. The anonymous author of this report notes that “The current state of the country has made using the Internet a bit of a challenge. Internet seems to be slow and there are a lot of [...]
A New York jury on Tuesday found former president Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, and for defaming her by branding her a liar, assessing the damages at $5 million. According to court documents, the jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, causing damages that the jury assessed at [...]
The Kremlin press service said Wednesday that Kyiv had deployed drones to the Kremlin the night prior in an attempt to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin. As a result of efficient actions taken by military and special operations services using radar systems, the devices were taken [...]
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, 51 human rights organizations called for the immediate release of Salah Soltan, an Egyptian-American legal scholar and the father of a prominent US human rights defender. Soltan, a former professor of Islamic Law at Cairo University and founder of the Islamic American University in Michigan, was arrested in Egypt [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion pill mifepristone will continue to be widely accessible as the ongoing appeals process takes place. Mifepristone, approved in 2000, is used broadly to end pregnancies. The FDA’s approval was challenged by doctors and medical groups claiming the drug regimen was “unsafe.” On April 7, a Texas federal [...]
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent opposition activist in Russia, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for charges related to his criticism of the war in Ukraine, in the latest iteration of the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign to silence activists and independent media outlets critical of the invasion. The trial proceedings, which saw limited access for [...]
Leaders of the two warring factions in Sudan agreed to a three-hour ceasefire on humanitarian grounds Sunday, as the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that three of its aid workers are among scores killed in the fighting. The organization announced: I am appalled and heartbroken by the tragic deaths of three WFP employees on Saturday [...]
