Month: March 2016

Blog: Scalia’s Influence on the Religion Clauses: Part II

Blog: Scalia’s Influence on the Religion Clauses: Part II

During the last thirty years, Justice Scalia was a key figure in the Supreme Court’s steady movement away from separationist readings of the Establishment Clause in state funding of religious...
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre-Recruiting: Project Manager on our Iran Foreign Investment Tracking Project

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre-Recruiting: Project Manager on our Iran Foreign Investment Tracking Project

Job purpose To lead and deliver a joint initiative of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. The project will raise awareness...
OxHRH Webinar-The Right to Security: Securing Rights or Securitzing Rights? -Dr Liora Lazarus (Oxford University)

OxHRH Webinar-The Right to Security: Securing Rights or Securitzing Rights? -Dr Liora Lazarus (Oxford University)

The OxHRH with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is pleased to continue it’s innovative webinar series with an exciting webinar from Associate Professor Dr Liora Lazarus (Oxford University) on...
Justice Scalia and the Fair Housing Act: A Textualist Approach Honed in Oral Argument

Justice Scalia and the Fair Housing Act: A Textualist Approach Honed in Oral Argument

Justice Antonin Scalia’s output in the area of housing rights, and Fair Housing Act (FHA) law specifically, is deceptively sparse, if judged by authored opinions. Assessing his impact on these...
Call for Papers-Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Conflicts and Regulatory Responses Conference

Call for Papers-Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Conflicts and Regulatory Responses Conference

Young Scholars’ Workshop of the Conference “Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Conflicts and Regulatory Responses” Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 20 to 22 July 2016 Conference subject The activities of...
Justice Scalia, Challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and a Missed Opportunity to Meaningfully Engage the Right to Healthcare

Justice Scalia, Challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and a Missed Opportunity to Meaningfully Engage the Right to Healthcare

Justice Antonin Scalia was known for his polarising opinions on fundamental issues in American policy. Yet, his recent dissents in major legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are...
2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: When Black Lives Matter-The Ethics of Race, Crime and Punishment in America

2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: When Black Lives Matter-The Ethics of Race, Crime and Punishment in America

2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government Professor Glenn Loury (Brown University) Title: “When Black Lives Matter: The Ethics of Race, Crime and Punishment in America” Professor Glenn Loury...
A Tale of Two Treaties: The Clean Power Plan

A Tale of Two Treaties: The Clean Power Plan

World leaders met near Paris almost a century ago promising to cooperate to end the scourge of war. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson touted his country’s contributions to international cooperation leading...
Papa Don’t Preach (You May be Found Guilty of Hate Speech)

Papa Don’t Preach (You May be Found Guilty of Hate Speech)

Rare is the day when the lowly District Judge sitting in the Magistrates’ Court gets the distinction of having one of his judgments reported. Kudos then to District Judge McNally...
Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Gender Equality: No Need to “Remember the Ladies” 

Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Gender Equality: No Need to “Remember the Ladies” 

Despite Justice Scalia’s well-known friendship with the most feminist Justice on the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scalia was no friend to feminist legal efforts. Indeed, he was...
Brexit, Rights, and the (Potential) Scrapping of the HRA

Brexit, Rights, and the (Potential) Scrapping of the HRA

The relationship between Brexit (British exit from the European Union) and human (and other) rights depends on what “rights” are under discussion. Although some in the media have incorrectly conflated...
Vacancies at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Vacancies at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Project Lead, KnowTheChain During 2016 KnowtheChain will benchmark companies’ transparency on their policies and processes to address forced labour in their global supply chains. We are seeking a dynamic, outcome-oriented...

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