Professor Mark Freedland, Associate of the Hub, has received the Bob Hepple Award for 2019

Professor Mark Freedland, Associate of the Hub, has received the Bob Hepple Award for 2019

The Labour Law Research Network has announced that the recipients of the 2019 LLRN Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime ...
Job Opportunity at the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

Job Opportunity at the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

The Australian Department of the Senate is currently recruiting for a Principal Research Officer to support the ...
RSC Public Seminar, 5pm, Wednesday 22 May: ‘Endurance and Involuntary Return to Senegal’

RSC Public Seminar, 5pm, Wednesday 22 May: ‘Endurance and Involuntary Return to Senegal’

RSC Public seminar 5pm Wednesday 22 May on Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal with Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez ...
Brazilian Supreme Court Inquiry into ‘Fake News’ Violates Freedom of Speech

Brazilian Supreme Court Inquiry into ‘Fake News’ Violates Freedom of Speech

The Brazilian Supreme Court has begun a confidential inquiry, ex officio, to investigate alleged crimes against ...
An Indian High Court Recognises Transgender Individuals’ Right to Marry

An Indian High Court Recognises Transgender Individuals’ Right to Marry

On April 22, 2019, in a significant decision for India’s transgender community, the Madras High Court in Tamil ...
Privacy International: Reaffirming the Rule of Law

Privacy International: Reaffirming the Rule of Law

On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court delivered its judgment in Privacy International. The issue was whether the ...
Friday in Focus: Mwai Daka

Friday in Focus: Mwai Daka

In 2015, I was awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship to complete an MA in Politics at the University of Sheffield and ...
The socio-economic duty: A powerful idea hidden in plain sight in the Equality Act

The socio-economic duty: A powerful idea hidden in plain sight in the Equality Act

Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 asks public authorities to actively consider the way in which their policies ...
Challenges to women’s rights and the legalization of abortion in Brazil: can we move forward?

Challenges to women’s rights and the legalization of abortion in Brazil: can we move forward?

2018 was a challenging year for women’s rights in Brazil, and perhaps a taste of trials in the years to come. In ...
Still the second sex: Some feminist reflections on the new General Comment of the UN Human Rights Committee on the right to life

Still the second sex: Some feminist reflections on the new General Comment of the UN Human Rights Committee on the right to life

In October 2018 the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (HRC) adopted general comment (GC) 36 on the right ...
New book from Professor Maya Unnithan: ‘Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India’

New book from Professor Maya Unnithan: ‘Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India’

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, ...
US Supreme Court Affirms that there is No Right to a Painless Death

US Supreme Court Affirms that there is No Right to a Painless Death

On 1st April, a 5-4 majority of the United States Supreme Court reiterated that while the Eighth Amendment of the ...