Editor’s note: This is Day 4 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. On Day 4 of suppression hearings in the New York state case against Luigi Mangione, Altoona Police Officer Christy Wasser testified that she discovered a pistol, loaded magazine, and suppressor in Mangione’s backpack during [...]

Human rights groups in Taiwan launched a petition on December 8 opposing draft legislation that would eliminate parole eligibility for individuals convicted of murder, attempted murder, or child abuse resulting in death. The petition, which has attracted support from many lawyers and law professors, follows a joint statement filed by the Taiwan Alliance to End [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 3 of JURIST’s coverage of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1 and Day 2. One year after the December 4 shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, Luigi Mangione returned to court for day three of critical suppression hearings in his New York state case before [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Two high-profile extradition cases unfolding this month highlight India’s obligations under domestic and international law: the potential extradition of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India back to her home country, and India’s efforts to extradite diamond merchant Mehul [...]

For 21 days, I have stared at a blank page, caught in the throes of an existential whiplash. Last month, I was dispatched by JURIST to attend the Second World Social Summit to report on the mechanics of global development, but I returned to Ghana unsettled. This was my first international trip—and the reality of [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 2 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1 here. On day two of the suppression hearings in the New York state case against Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, in December 2024, prosecutors devoted the day to a single [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 1 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 2 here. The New York State case against Luigi Mangione, suspect of the December 4, 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saw its first evidentiary suppression hearing on Monday. The high-stakes hearings are expected to last approximately five days [...]

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  A profound constitutional crisis is gripping Pakistan. Two of the country’s most respected Supreme Court justices, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah, have resigned in protest, declaring that the [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan. On November 13, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than a week. Introduced in the Senate on November 10 and approved the same day, the amendment passed through the National Assembly with [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a third-year student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. He has been actively following developments in this discrimination case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal member ruled last week that the government cannot invoke national security laws to indefinitely delay discrimination complaints. The Tribunal decision [...]