“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” – Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study US President Donald Trump’s policies are not just matters of domestic law, but also international law in that the Trump administration’s harmful [...]
Israel’s recent military actions in Syria undermine the country’s political transition and the opportunity for Syria and Israel to form a new security agreement, Assistant Secretary General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Khaled Khiari said before the UN Security Council on Thursday. During the UN Security Council briefing, Khiari and the head of UN Peace [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court order directing the US government to bring unlawfully deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back to the US. Garcia was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on his way home from work on March 12, and was sent to the newly-constructed, controversial [...]
A US federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the US government’s motion for a stay pending appeal of a district court’s order that federal agencies and executive departments reinstate fired probationary federal workers and refrain from firing any additional federal workers without proper notice. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government met [...]
The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would restrict district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctive relief orders to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders from taking effect. Section 1370(a) of the “No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025” (NORRA) states that “no United States district court shall issue any order providing [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that most countries are failing to meet their human rights obligations by not allocating sufficient public funding to ensure the right to health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED), which offers data on healthcare spending across 194 countries and territories since 2022. [...]
Amnesty International released a report on Thursday detailing prevalent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), indicating probable war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, titled “They Raped All of Us,” shared the story of 30 women and girls who were raped from April 15, [...]
US President Donald Trump’s administration targeted Houston-based law firm Susman Godfrey LLP in an executive order Wednesday, zeroing in on the firm’s previous defamation litigation related to the 2020 US election, as well as its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The administration has targeted other large law firms over similar programs, deeming them “unlawful [...]
The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Tuesday, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) delivered its judgement in State of Tamil Nadu v. R.N. Ravi (R.N. Ravi), setting yet another precedent in a line of cases limiting [...]
A group of 67 former lawyers of major corporations including Microsoft, Eli Lilly and Intel submitted a brief on Tuesday denouncing US President Donald Trump’s use of executive orders to target big law firms. The brief was filed in support of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, which sued the Trump administration after being targeted [...]
