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Atieh Babakhani (2026), “Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce”

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Atieh Babakhani. “Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce.” Law & Social Inquiry (2026): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2026.10153. While prior research has focused on the role of cause lawyers in legal and social reforms within authoritarian regimes, the everyday practices of non-cause lawyers handling controversial cases remain unexplored. Drawing …

Karua sues Uganda over deportation, seeks return to defend Besigye

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Kenyan Senior Counsel Martha Karua, a former justice minister of Kenya, has sued the government of Uganda over her deportation and the decision to declare her persona non grata. She is suing the Attorney General jointly with the Uganda Law Society, challenging the decision of the principal immigration officer at Entebbe International Airport to deny …

High Court urges Balad chairman to drop out of elections or face disqualification

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On October 1 Supreme Court President Isaac Amit told Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh that a majority of a nine-justice panel would uphold the Central Elections Committee’s decision to bar him from the October 27 election, and recommended that he withdraw. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara backed the disqualification over an article he published on October …

Judge overturns Trump’s decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle

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On October 1 U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian ruled that the President had unlawfully fired Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran prosecutor whom the 17 active and senior judges of the Western District of Washington unanimously named U.S. attorney in July after the post went unfilled by a Senate-confirmed nominee, and reinstated him. Rogoff …

Justice Department files judicial misconduct complaint against federal judges in Minnesota

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The Justice Department has filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the Eighth Circuit against all but one of Minnesota’s federal district judges, after most of them spoke to the New York Times about Operation Metro Surge, last winter’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. The complaint names Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim, says they …

Bar associations back one challenge to U.S. sanctions on the ICC as a federal court lets another proceed

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On September 25 eight amicus briefs were filed in support of a lawsuit by Human Rights Watch and three other organizations against the executive order authorizing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and those who assist the court. The International Criminal Court Bar Association argued that the sanctions threaten the independence of ICC lawyers, and …

Tunisia: Politicized and persecutory: the trial of lawyer Ahmed Souab in Case 12/9749

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A legal briefing published on September 30 examines the prosecution of Ahmed Souab, a lawyer and former administrative judge who, after the final hearing in the “Conspiracy Case” in April 2025, publicly accused the Ministry of Justice of pressuring the trial judge. He was charged under the counter-terrorism law and other statutes and sentenced in …

Pakistan: End the cycle of detention and judicial harassment of lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha

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Fifteen organizations, including the International Commission of Jurists, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, the Law Society of England and Wales and the New York City Bar Association, have called for the release of the two human rights lawyers. Mazari-Hazir and Chattha were rearrested within hours of the Supreme Court’s September 17 …

Two years after Mexico’s judicial reform: what has changed—and why it matters for the United States

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Luis Carlos Ugalde and Paulina Creuheras review the 2024 reform that made Mexico’s Supreme Court justices, federal judges and the members of a new Judicial Discipline Tribunal subject to popular election, and that dismantled the career judiciary. Turnout in the June 2025 vote was 12.9 percent, and the National Electoral Institute found that winning candidates …

Prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg resigns from DOJ in fiery letter, saying Boutros “personally directed” Broadview Six prosecution

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Sheri Mecklenburg, the lead grand jury prosecutor in the federal case against six protesters arrested outside the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago, has retired from the Justice Department under protest. The case collapsed when the felony charges were dropped and the remaining misdemeanors were dismissed with prejudice amid allegations of grand jury misconduct, which U.S. …