A US District Court Northern District of Alabama three judge panel Tuesday tossed out the Alabama legislature’s proposed congressional map, holding that the current map is still racially gerrymandered and likely violates... Read more »
On Monday, Seoul witnessed a gathering of 50,000 educators demanding the protection of their rights and advocating for lawful regulation concerning overbearing parents. Related to this protest, the country has seen a... Read more »
Edwin Gakunga is a student at the Kenya School of Law and a JURIST Assistant Editor. He files this dispatch from Nairobi. Filing from the vibrant city of Nairobi, Kenya, I find... Read more »
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported Friday that 42 bodies were retrieved from the Somaliland conflict front line. The ICRC also visited with over 300 detainees in the region... Read more »
Hong Kong District Court judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung handed down a judgment Thursday sentencing Tommy Yuen, a former Cantopop boy band member, to 26 months of imprisonment. Yuen was convicted of “doing... Read more »
Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 4th year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship. On Friday, September 1, during an address... Read more »
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Mashal Asim Khan is an LLB student in the University of London ... Read more »
Thousands of pro-junta protesters demonstrated outside a French military base in Niamey, Niger on Saturday against France’s refusal to withdraw its military from the country despite demands from Niger’s junta. Protesters were... Read more »
Tunisian authorities placed Abdel Karim Harouni, the head of Ennahda party’s advisory council and a senior opposition figure, under house arrest on Saturday, according to a statement from the National Salvation Front,... Read more »
Georgia’s governing party Georgian Dream announced Friday that it is starting impeachment procedures against Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili in response to what it calls a violation of the country’s constitution, according to... Read more »