The Fair Housing Act in the Trump Era: A Proposed Agency Rule Will Seriously Dilute Disparate-Impact LiabilityUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsGalvanized by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, the U.S. Congress adopted the Fair Housing Act ...
The European Union Detaining Migrants in Libya – are they Breaching Non-Refoulment?Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Immigration and AsylumThe news coming out of Libya is dire. As the largest flow of modern African migration funnels through this single ...
The Failure of the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief?: The Case of Southeast AsiaIndonesia, Myanmar, Right to Freedom of ReligionThe right to freedom of religion or belief (“freedom of religion”) is protected at the international and regional ...
Blurred Lines: When Free Speech Becomes Hate SpeechSouth Africa, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn the 27th of August 2019, the South African Constitutional Court (Court) heard its first substantive hate speech ...
Police Use of Automated Facial Recognition Technology: an Emerging Challenge for Human RightsUnited Kingdom, Right to PrivacyEarlier this week, the High Court at Cardiff held that police use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) ...
Prorogation: Three AssumptionsUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsLitigation is often predicated on certain assumptions. These may be the result of argumentation of the parties, ...
UN Political Bodies and Voluntary Abortion: Back to 1994United Nations, AbortionCalls for the protection of reproductive and sexual health are included in an increasing number of resolutions of ...
The Human Rights Implications of China’s Social Credit SystemChina, Right to Privacy, Social ProtectionThe issue of importing human rights to the digital sphere, especially in the context of state surveillance, has ...
Human Rights and Internet Shut-Downs in Jammu & KashmirIndia, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe developments in Valleys of Jammu and Kashmir (hereinafter J&K or valley) has witnessed innumerable counts ...
Prorogation: A View from CanadaCanada, Constitutions and Human RightsJust over a decade ago, large numbers of Canadians turned to Google’s search engine’s algorithm to shed light on a ...
Prorogation: Constitutional Principle and Law, Fact and CausationUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe Prime Minister’s recent announcement that Parliament would be prorogued, thereby severely curtailing the ...
Playing Hardball with the QueenUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsThe idea of constitutional hardball was introduced to the world by Mark Tushnet. The sport is played when ...