The Derek Chauvin Trial as a Landmark in the American History of Racial Bias
George Floyd: I Can’t Breathe Jury: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Biden: We Can’t Stop Here Outside the Hennepin County courthouse, Minnesota, Floyd family attorney Justin Miller said: What is justice when you lose a loved one? When you don’t have your father or your brother or your uncle anymore? I don’t really think there is justice. [...]
Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan people, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war along ethno-nationalist lines. The flags of concern here all feature big cats as central to their designs. Big cats, wherever they occur, have been [...]
UK Court of Appeals pronounces family court guidelines for cases of domestic abuse and child welfare
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday pronounced a landmark judgement expected to guide the family court’s approach towards allegations of domestic abuse. The case, Re H-N and Others (children), was concerning four appeals involving the welfare of children where allegations of domestic abuse had been made by at least one parent against the other. [...]
UK regulations to ensure legal abortions fully available in Northern Ireland
The British government published regulations Tuesday giving British officials the power to compel Northern Ireland to implement a full scope of reproductive care services, following a 2019 law that legalized abortions in the region. Supporters say this law is a step in the right direction for women needing to access abortion procedures, but critics from [...]
In the weeks that have passed since Myanmar’s February 1 coup d’état, as dissenters have been jailed, disappeared and killed, a group of JURIST law student correspondents* has participated in street protests by day and navigated government-ordered internet blackouts by night to report on the crisis. Below we provide an overview of the origins and [...]
UK to expand protection from non-fatal strangulation, coercive control, revenge porn
The UK will introduce new amendments to its Domestic Abuse Bill this week in an effort to expand protection from non-fatal strangulation, post-separation coercive control and revenge pornography, according to a Monday statement from the Home Office. The Home Office announced the proposed amendments to the bill on its website, with three main changes. The first proposed [...]
Taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers, entitling tens of thousands of drivers to minimum wage and holiday pay, the UK Supreme Court held on Friday. Under s. 230(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996, a “worker” is anyone employed (a) under a contract of employment or (b) any other contract, whether [...]
Where International Justice is Failing the Uyghurs, Economic Tactics Can Advance Real Change
Between one and three million Uyghurs and other members of Muslim minority groups, including Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, have reportedly been detained in some 1,200 hastily built re-education camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of Western China since 2017. Reports of arbitrary detention, forced labor, sterilization, sexual abuse and extrajudicial killings are rife. The [...]
The UK government announced Wednesday that it is seeking to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 in order to give patients more control over their treatment. The reforms are based on an independent review carried out in 2017, which looked at the rising number of people being detained under the Mental Health Act as well [...]
On 27 November 2020, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed while traveling in his car just east of Tehran. It is understood that Fakhrizadeh was Iran’s foremost nuclear scientist and that he led the country’s efforts to develop a nuclear bomb. The details of the attack are a matter of doubt, with Iran claiming that Israel was the [...]
