Probing the Normative Limits of Criminalizing ‘Choice’ under the Indian Anti-Conversion LawsIndia, conversion, criminal law, Freedom of Religion, right to marryA familiar yet urgent question stands before the Indian Supreme Court. Rajasthan is the most recent addition to ...
Recognition Is Not Justice: What Australia’s River Law Reveals About Indigenous RightsAustralia, United Nations, Environment, Indigenous RightsIn 2017, Victoria enacted the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act, the first law in Australia ...
Chirinos Salamanca v. Venezuela: A Legal Analysis of Retroactive Human Rights Law ApplicationAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Venezuela, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Democracy and Political Rights, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of ReviewOn 21 August 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) delivered its judgment on preliminary ...
Chirinos Salamanca vs. Venezuela: Un análisis jurídico de la aplicación retroactiva de la legislación de derechos humanosAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Venezuela, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Democracy and Political Rights, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of ReviewEl 21 de agosto de 2025, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) dictó sentencia sobre ...
The Kerala High Court’s Sex Work Ruling: A Human Rights Crisis in the MakingIndia, Freedom of expression, Legislative Reform, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sex WorkWhen courts rule on the lives of vulnerable communities without grounding their decisions in lived realities, the ...
Playing with the Brain: The AI Act in the Age of NeurotechnologyEuropean Union, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, ECHR, Freedom of thought, Technology and human rightsArticle 5 of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act in the European Union (EU) came into force on 2 February 2025. A ...
Retroceso Democrático y Mecanismos Diagonales de Control: Lecciones del ‘Asunto Kimmel’ — Part IIUnited States, United States of America, Private Actors, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionCuando Jimmy Kimmel se burló del asesino de Charlie Kirk, difícilmente pudo imaginar que su comentario satírico ...
Retroceso Democrático y Mecanismos Diagonales de Control: Lecciones del ‘Asunto Kimmel’ — Part IUnited States, United States of America, Private Actors, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionCuando Jimmy Kimmel se burló del asesino de Charlie Kirk, difícilmente pudo imaginar que su comentario satírico ...
Saving Time, Saving Lives: The Golden Hour as a Constitutional Guarantee in IndiaIndia, Right to Health, Right to Life, Socio-Economic RightsIn trauma medicine, the “golden hour” is the first sixty minutes after a serious injury—the period when rapid ...
Maharashtra’s Special Public Security Bill: Vague Law, Clear DangerIndia, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Human Dignity, Social Protection, Standard of ReviewThe Maharashtra State Assembly in India recently passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill (MSPS) with ...
Towards an Independent Judiciary: The Case for a Separate Judicial Secretariat in BangladeshBangladesh, judicial independence, judicial power, judicial reform, rule of law, separation of powersBangladesh’s judiciary has long struggled to transform constitutional guarantees of independence into a practical ...
Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part IIUnited States, United States of America, Private Actors, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionWhen Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Charlie Kirk’s murderer, he likely never imagined that this routine act of ...