Spotlighting Student Journalism Globally
Over the years, students have gone to great extents to research the rankings, classes, and costs of schools, but rarely its ballot sheet. Yet, the increasing political rhetoric of education may demonstrate a greater need to...
On January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, marking a significant development in U.S. immigration policy. This legislation mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with specific crimes and empowers...
On January 15, 2025, the United States Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision that eases the burden of proof for employers in wage-related lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Court ruled that employers...
In August 2024, the Maharashtra government introduced the Special Public Security Bill aiming to address “urban Naxalism”— essentially urban-based supporters or sympathizers of Naxalite ideologies. The Bill seeks to allow the state to criminalize “unlawful activity”...
On January 1, 2025, Syria’s education ministry posted an official list of amendments to the education system on Facebook. These changes would affect first to twelfth-grade schoolbooks in all Syrian schools, implementing a focus on history,...
India’s recent replacement of its colonial-era criminal laws marks a pivotal turning point in the nation’s legal history. This transformative reform, enacted in July 2024, seeks to dismantle the vestiges of a legal framework established over...
With the year coming to a close, many schools in the United States (U.S.) are going on winter break and will commence further in the following weeks. Reflecting on the year, there has been an overwhelming...
In India, the right to freedom of speech and expression is enshrined under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. However, it is not absolute and is subject to “reasonable restrictions” under Article 19(2). Recent legal developments have...
The legal and political battles surrounding TikTok intensified this week as a U.S. appeals court upheld a law requiring the platform’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest ownership of the app or face a potential ban...
At 4:30 a.m. (KST) on December 3, 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of martial law across the country. Martial law means that the country will be ruled by military authorities, and...
