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Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
This week we ask: if the international community can't make states abide by their human rights obligations, what's the point of invoking human rights?
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan was ousted in April 2022 after an orchestrated no-confidence motion was passed against him. Since then, he and his political party have been subjected to consistent and worsening state repressive attacks.
Blog: Reason.com
Hunter Biden
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Dhruv Aggarwal (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) has posted Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs on SSRN. Here is the abstract: I estimate the relationship between increased creditor rights and legal expenditures of debtor corporations by analyzing the effect of...
Blog: Reason.com
Long-time readers will recall that I am a vociferous critic of Human Rights Watch. HRW purports to be a neutral human rights organization, but consistently hires staffers with a history of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activism to write and report on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. So how did HRW do after the Oct. 7 massacre and brutalization of…
Blog: Verfassungsblog
Since the election of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the federal elections in India in 2014, the country's performance in key indicators of democratic quality has suffered. Over the course of its two terms in power, the party has sought to subvert key institutions for accountability, enact an ethno-cultural majoritarian electoral agenda, and use federal law enforcement agencies against their political opponents. While there is extensive literature on the erosion of civil-political rights in the past ten years, the effects of the BJP government on social rights like education and healthcare remain under-explored. Therefore, in this post, I explore three striking dimensions of primary educational policy under the BJP government.
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Darrell A. H. Miller (Duke University School of Law) has posted Common Good Gun Rights (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2024) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Professor Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism aims to invigorate debates in...
Blog: The New Rambler. An Online Review of Books - New Rambler Review
By ANNA SU
Review of Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse, by Elizabeth Renieris
Blog: blog*interdisziplinäre geschlechterforschung
Janet Conway is a Professor of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. Her research focuses on global justice, transnational feminisms and indigenous activisms. From May to July 2022 she was a research...
Blog: Reason.com
a few comments on the oral arguments in SEC v. Jarkesy
Blog: Social Europe
The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Aaron Tang (University of California, Davis - School of Law) has posted The Supreme Court and Children (Northwestern University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How do children fare at the Supreme Court? Empirical research on the...
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Jens Theilen (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg) has posted Intersectionality's Travels to International Human Rights Law (Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 45, No. 2, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Over the last two decades, references to intersectionality have become increasingly...
Blog: Social Europe
Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Governments have long enlisted women's bodies to meet reproductive policy goals, often with little forethought to the broader implications. Negligent medical practices as well as unfair societal perceptions and actions are just some of the outcomes women face.