A Human Right to Divorce?

A Human Right to Divorce?

The case of Owens v Owens rocked the legal world in late July, when the Supreme Court decided that Tini Owens ...
Discipline and Punish: How Anti-Beggary Laws in India are used to Criminalize Transgender Persons

Discipline and Punish: How Anti-Beggary Laws in India are used to Criminalize Transgender Persons

The Delhi High Court in a landmark judgment (Harsh Mander v. Union of India and Karnika Sawney v. Union of India) ...
Makangwane: A Fight for Effective Relief to Historic Injustice

Makangwane: A Fight for Effective Relief to Historic Injustice

Learners at Makangwane Secondary School in Limpopo, South Africa have for too long been deprived of their ...
The Sabarimala Temple Ban: An ‘Untouchable’ Rule

The Sabarimala Temple Ban: An ‘Untouchable’ Rule

On 1st August, 2018, the Supreme Court of India concluded its hearing on a crucial matter regarding the Sabrimala ...
Call for Papers: Fundamental Rights at Work – INTRAlaw Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark

Call for Papers: Fundamental Rights at Work – INTRAlaw Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark

Dates: Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 November 2018 Early career workshop: Monday 26 November 2018 Fundamental ...
Section 377: The Essence of Freedom

Section 377: The Essence of Freedom

A country that routinely bans movies that attempt to speak of homosexuality is witnessing a historic discussion on ...
Coup, Constitution and the Court: Zimbabwean Constitutional Court whitewashes flawed rigged elections

Coup, Constitution and the Court: Zimbabwean Constitutional Court whitewashes flawed rigged elections

Today, the Constitutional Court dismissed a legal challenge to Zimbabwe’s presidential elections. In my previous ...
Friday in Focus: Dhvani Mehta

Friday in Focus: Dhvani Mehta

When I first came to Oxford to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law in 2009, an entirely new way of thinking opened ...
Promoting ‘Gender Ideology’: Constitutional Court of Bulgaria Declares Istanbul Convention Unconstitutional

Promoting ‘Gender Ideology’: Constitutional Court of Bulgaria Declares Istanbul Convention Unconstitutional

On July 27 Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating ...
End Child Marriage

End Child Marriage

Over 200 students and members of the public turned up for a rally today in a roaring show of support to end child ...
Battling for Equality: The Court of Appeal Rules No Benefits for Same-sex Spouses

Battling for Equality: The Court of Appeal Rules No Benefits for Same-sex Spouses

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal recently overturned the Court of First Instance's decision that the same-sex spouse ...