Justice Scalia and the Fair Housing Act: A Textualist Approach Honed in Oral ArgumentUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Role of the JudiciaryJustice Antonin Scalia’s output in the area of housing rights, and Fair Housing Act (FHA) law specifically, is ...
Justice Scalia, Challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and a Missed Opportunity to Meaningfully Engage the Right to HealthcareUnited States of America, Right to Health, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic RightsJustice Antonin Scalia was known for his polarising opinions on fundamental issues in American policy. Yet, his ...
A Tale of Two Treaties: The Clean Power PlanUnited States of America, EnvironmentWorld leaders met near Paris almost a century ago promising to cooperate to end the scourge of war. U.S. President ...
Papa Don’t Preach (You May be Found Guilty of Hate Speech)United Kingdom, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionRare is the day when the lowly District Judge sitting in the Magistrates’ Court gets the distinction of having one ...
Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Gender Equality: No Need to “Remember the Ladies” United States of America, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the JudiciaryDespite Justice Scalia’s well-known friendship with the most feminist Justice on the United States Supreme Court, ...
Brexit, Rights, and the (Potential) Scrapping of the HRAUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe relationship between Brexit (British exit from the European Union) and human (and other) rights depends on ...
Justice Scalia’s Repudiation of Women’s Health and Reproductive RightsUnited States of America, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThroughout the three decades that Justice Antonin Scalia served on the United States Supreme Court, he was ...
Abortion in Texas: Does Casey Still Have Content?United States of America, Abortion, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOn March 2, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court heard much awaited arguments in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the ...
Online Speech in Hungary before the Strasbourg Court: Freeing the LowEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in MTE and Index.hu v Hungary (“MTE/Index”) issued a decision ...
A New Regime for Data Protection in EuropeEuropean Union, Right to PrivacyAlmost four years after its initial proposal in January 2012, the finalised text of the General Data Protection ...
Justice Scalia’s Influence on the Religion Clauses Part I: Free Exercise LawUnited States of America, Right to Freedom of Religion, Role of the JudiciaryThe “big three” issues in Religion Clauses jurisprudence are: (1) whether and how judges should decide claims to ...
Part II: The intersection of Business and Human Rights at the Inter-American Court of Human RightsAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Business and Human RightsThe previous post on the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples case explained how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ...