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 ...
In Deference to Majoritarian Oppression: Justice Scalia’s Indifference to LGBTQ LivesUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual OrientationOn June 26 2015, in Obergefell v. Hodges, a five-member majority of the United States Supreme Court struck down ...
Part I: The intersection of Business and Human Rights at the Inter-American Court of Human RightsAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Business and Human RightsIn its recent judgment in the case of the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v Suriname, the Inter-American Court of Human ...
Amnesty Law in VenezuelaVenezuela, Conflict and Human RightsVenezuela’s recently elected National Assembly is currently debating the approval of an amnesty law. Aside from ...
Justice Antonin Scalia’s Rebuke of InnocenceUnited States of America, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Race, Role of the JudiciaryThroughout his thirty-year service on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether ...
UNHRC Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice country mission to the United StatesUnited Nations, United States of America, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn December 2015, the UN Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice (WGDAW) ...