By Meghan Campbell and Arthur Chan Oxford Legal Assistance (OLA) is an undergraduate and postgraduate legal aid scheme, run out of the University of Oxford and is partnered with Turpin...
It's Time to Wake Up – UK Legal Aid Cuts
Like many law academics I suppose I had grown tired of well-heeled QCs claiming that this or that change to legal services spelt doom for their profession when what they...
It’s Time to Wake Up – UK Legal Aid Cuts
Like many law academics I suppose I had grown tired of well-heeled QCs claiming that this or that change to legal services spelt doom for their profession when what they...
The Promise of Cash Transfers from Mineral Resource Wealth
It’s a place of darkness. People hail from tribes and clans. They are poor and live in basic shelters in remote villages, with no running water or electricity, and...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Constitution-Making and Voter Education in Zimbabwe
By Obert Hodzi Over the past decade, Zimbabwe has been characterised by political turmoil and economic meltdown that resulted in dollarization and abandonment of the country’s currency in 2008. After...
Justice and Security Act 2013: Impact on Open Justice and Trial Rights
On the 25th of April 2013, the Justice and Security Act was granted Royal Assent after the Bill’s tumultuous progression through the parliamentary drafting stages. Part 2 of the...
Stealing Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Why Multiculturalism and Women’s Rights Make Such Uneasy Bedfellows
Liz Fouksman uses the case of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan to delve into the uneasy intersection of culture and women’s rights highlighted by the debates at the UN Commission on...
Freedom of Information in Relation to Private Companies
A comparative law research project prepared by Oxford Pro Bono Publico for the Hungarian CivilLiberties Union OPBP volunteers discuss the HCLU project. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), a leading...
Denied Education is Denied Survival: The Case of The Nasa People
By Ethel Castellanos-Morales and Camilo Castillo-Sánchez – Colombia is a country with a modern constitutional system that allows it to recognize its different ethnic groups and protect the diversity that...
Public Interest Law in South Africa
By Justice Dhaya Pillay I am troubled by the inequality in our society despite our grand Constitution. My concern is that the impact of apartheid plagues black and poor people...
The Role of Civil Society in the Execution of ECtHR Judgments
By Victoria Prais European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments can have a huge impact in Member States by highlighting systemic and serious problems in human rights protection. But what...
Rendering Abortion Unconstitutional? Article 28 of Zambia’s New Draft Constitution
By Yaliwe Clarke Given international gains in legislation that protects women’s right to abortion, it is concerning that Zambia’s current draft constitution has put this matter back into national political...