Four Reasons for Retaining the Charter: Part 4 – The Counter-Arguments and their WeaknessesUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe previous three posts examined the reasons for retaining the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in UK law after ...
Four Reasons for Retaining the Charter: Part 3 – Clarity and DemocracyUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe previous two posts argued that there were good reasons to retain the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in terms ...
Four Reasons for Retaining the Charter: Part 2 – RemediesUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe previous blog post drew attention to the way in which the scope of rights protected in the UK may be ...
Four Reasons for Retaining the Charter Post Brexit: Part 1 – A Broader Protection of RightsUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThis series of short blog posts will argue that there are four main reasons for allowing the EU Charter of ...
Legalization of Abortion on Three Grounds in ChileChile, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive RightsAfter having a full abortion ban for over 100 years and the lowest maternal mortality rate in Latin America, Chile ...
Why Artificial Intelligence is Already a Human Rights IssueUnited Nations, Business and Human Rights, Right to Privacy Last month, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Professor Philip Alston released a ...
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Promise and Reality of U.S. Tax ReformUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Social ProtectionThe U.S. tax reform law is dangerous for poor and lower middle-class families. Superficially, this legislation ...
Argentine Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Religion Classes in Public SchoolsArgentina, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to PrivacyIn the recent case “Castillo c. Provincia de Salta”, the Argentine Supreme Court declared the unconstitutionality ...
Haralambous: The Supreme Court, Closed Proceedings and the Common Law, Round ThreeEuropean Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialThe right to a fair trial is undoubtedly one of the most sacrosanct rights in most modern legal systems, and is ...
The Philippines’ War on DrugsPhilippines, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialWhen Rodrigo Duterte took to office as President of the Philippines on June 30 2016, he sought to fulfil, among ...
The Global Compact on Refugees: A Step Towards Mending a Broken SystemUnited Nations, Immigration and AsylumIn September 2016, the General Assembly convened the first-ever high level summit on refugees and migrants. Heads ...
The Soviet Legacy and Current Human Rights DebatesUnited Nations, Constitutions and Human RightsA recent post by Steven Jensen has suggested that a model of ‘generations of rights’ – civil and political rights; ...