Last Tuesday, May 6, the Supreme Court of Ghana in a 3-2 majority dismissed an application by Vincent Ekow Assafuah, a member of parliament who invited the court to halt the suspension of Ghana’s Chief Justice as effected by the president of the republic, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. The decision followed the unanimous ruling [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. The past weeks have witnessed an unprecedented escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist killings of tourists on Indian soil in the town of Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). While the near-fratricidal [...]

Shofa Umrotul H. is a student in the Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. She filed this dispatch from Malang.  At the end of April, Governor Dedi Mulyadi of Indonesia’s West Java province sparked national controversy after proposing a policy that would require men to undergo vasectomy to qualify for government-provided social aid. The proposal [...]

Law students at the University of Cape Coast Faculty of Law are reporting on legal developments in Ghana for JURIST.  The late April suspension of the chief justice of Ghana, Getrude Sackey Torkornoo, has sparked a raft of sentiments and constitutional concerns across the Ghanaian populace, ranging from concerned citizens to political parties, independent statutory [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent from Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. In a deeply concerning turn of events, Kosovo has fallen to 99th place in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, the lowest ranking in over 15 years. This decline is a [...]

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 3L.   Familiar blue and white flags flutter from balconies across Tel Aviv today, marking Israel’s 77th Independence Day. The smell of barbecues, a Yom Ha’atzmaut staple, drifts on [...]

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 recent law graduate of the University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is currently practicing in the courts of Pakistan.   A tragic militant attack in the Baisaran Valley near [...]

Central to FCC v. Consumers’ Research, now pending before the US Supreme Court, is technology that props up nearly every aspect of modern life: broadband internet. The Universal Service Fund (USF) is among a set of policies historically implemented by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), designed to keep rates for local telephone service affordable for [...]

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 [...]

Last week, after a six-hour drive, I arrived in Charlevoix, Quebec, where G7 Foreign Ministers met from March 12 to 14. Hosted by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, the meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Japan and the European Union (EU). When I arrived at [...]