Socioeconomic rights researchers, advocates and practitioners gather at Åbo Akademi University

Socioeconomic rights researchers, advocates and practitioners gather at Åbo Akademi University

Through this blog, I share what I have learned from recently attending a week long advanced course on the ...
Oxford City Council Holocaust Memorial Day Service

Oxford City Council Holocaust Memorial Day Service

A short reflection service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day will take place in Town Hall at 11am on Friday 27 ...
The Majority Judgment in Miller: Vulnerable but Defensible

The Majority Judgment in Miller: Vulnerable but Defensible

The UK Supreme Court concluded yesterday, by an 8–3 majority, that legislation is needed for Article 50 to be ...
Miller: A Vital Reaffirmation of Parliamentary Sovereignty

Miller: A Vital Reaffirmation of Parliamentary Sovereignty

In a ringing defence of the power of Parliament against the executive, the Supreme Court today held that the ...
Call for Entries – The 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize 2017

Call for Entries – The 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize 2017

The 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize is the first academic writing award to be established by the Oxford ...
Environmental Human Rights in the Trump Era: Modes of Resistance and Reform

Environmental Human Rights in the Trump Era: Modes of Resistance and Reform

The ecological ramifications of the Trump administration may well prove catastrophic. Climate change denial and ...
New Publication: Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality and Law-Kate Greasley (UCL)

New Publication: Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality and Law-Kate Greasley (UCL)

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an ...
Donald Trump is President: What are the Implications for the Death Penalty?

Donald Trump is President: What are the Implications for the Death Penalty?

Prior to the election of Donald Trump, death penalty abolitionists were quietly confident that capital punishment ...
RightsUp Podcast #RightsNow – What to Expect When You’re Expecting Brexit?

RightsUp Podcast #RightsNow – What to Expect When You’re Expecting Brexit?

The UK Supreme Court is expected to deliver a decision on the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State ...
Access to information in order to speak freely: Is this a right under the European Convention?

Access to information in order to speak freely: Is this a right under the European Convention?

If access to government information is “necessary” for you to investigate and communicate about matters of ...
Torch Seminar Series: Fiction and Human Rights

Torch Seminar Series: Fiction and Human Rights

This is an interdisciplinary symposium at which lawyers, literary scholars, philosophers and others discuss the ...