Increased Transparency or More “Caixa Dois”? The Brazilian Supreme Court Says No to Corporate Donations to Electoral CampaignsBrazil, Right to VoteOn the 17th of September, the Constitutional Court of Brazil (STF) ruled on case n°4.650, declaring the ...
Irish Government Abandons Plans to Reduce Elitism in SchoolsIreland, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsIn a disappointing blow for proponents of equality, the Irish Minister for Education, Jan O'Sullivan TD, announced ...
A Backwards Step for Human Rights Law in Victoria: Bare v Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption CommissionAustralia, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right against TortureIn July 2015, the Victoria Court of Appeal, Australia, handed down a landmark decision in Bare v Independent ...
Including Water Security on the UN Security Council AgendaUnited Nations, Socio-Economic RightsWater is indispensable to human survival and economic production. The management of water access has thus become a ...
Advocating Legal Reform: The UK Transgender Equality InquiryUnited Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the United Kingdom (UK), the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities is currently undertaking ...
A judicial ‘Plan B’? Dinah Rose QC on the Common Law in a post-UK Human Rights Act worldUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsIn recent weeks the Blog has covered the latest events at which proponents of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 ...
Sir Keir Starmer’s Blackstone Lecture: “Human Rights: Can Britain go it Alone? And Should We?”United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsOn 21st November, the annual Blackstone Lecture at Pembroke College was delivered by Sir Keir Starmer, the well ...
Will There be Any Women in Fifty Years Time, Lord Sumption?United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the JudiciaryIn September of this year, Lord Sumption, a Justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court caused consternation by ...
An Overview of Developments in the Process of Judicial Appointments in IndiaIndia, Role of the JudiciaryAs highlighted in Arghya Sengupta’s post on judicial appointments in India appearing on the Blog early this year, ...
The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: A (Somewhat) Different Balance Between Privacy and SecurityUnited Kingdom, Right to PrivacyRecently it seems as though you can hardly get away from government mass surveillance programs (no pun intended). ...
Dominic Grieve on the Human Rights Act: St Hugh’s College, Oxford—13 November 2015United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsThe Human Rights Act (HRA) is one of the most significant pieces of constitutional reform in Britain. Certain ...
Couderc and Hachette Filipacchi Associés v. France: A New “Respect” for Private Life?European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to PrivacyOn 10 November 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down judgment in the ...