During his presidency, Donald Trump accepted millions of dollars from foreign states including China, Saudi Arabia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report released Thursday by Democratic lawmakers. Through entities he owned or controlled, the report alleges, Trump accepted at least $7.8 million from at least 20 countries spanning the globe during [...]

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that the Court of Appeal of Qatar has decided to commute the death sentences of eight Indian nationals working for Doha-based Al Dahra Global. According to the MEA, the detailed judgment from the Court of Appeal has yet to be released. The MEA also stated that the [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Izhar Ahmed Khan is a 2022 LL.B. graduate of the Pakistan College of Law (University of London International Program). Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the [...]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced his determination that combatants on both sides of Sudan’s ongoing civil conflict have committed war crimes in recent months, and that some had also committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Since mid-April, members of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina.   Due to concerns that the unresolved situation between Kosovo and Serbia could increase instability in the region, NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels this week are discussing [...]

Kenyan law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Kenya. Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s Senior Correspondent in Kenya, and Griffins Ogada is a Staff Correspondent. Both of them are students at the University of Nairobi School of Law. They file this dispatch from Nairobi. Haiti is a country rich in natural [...]

In this first-of-its-kind JURIST “global dispatch” on a single topic, 15 law students and young lawyers from around the world, all of them JURIST correspondents from outside of Israel and Palestine, join together to offer a  panoramic view of how the current Gaza conflict is unfolding in their countries and regions. Beyond the headlines, they [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a law student at the University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore.  Last week on November 12, the Islamabad High Court issued a stay order [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed last week a lower court’s finding that redistricting efforts by Texas’ Galveston County constituted racial gerrymandering, but raised concerns over whether the legal precedent underlying the decision complied with the legislative intent of the US Voting Rights Act (VRA). Between 1991 and 2021, Galveston County [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Hussain Abbas is an LLB student in the University of London External Programme. He files this from Islamabad. Flight FZ 4525 Fly Dubai is scheduled to land at Islamabad International Airport at 1 pm on Friday [...]