Charting the Future of Development:  A Tale of Two Agendas

Charting the Future of Development: A Tale of Two Agendas

Editor's note: this post is the winning entry for the OxHRH Summer Short Essay Competition 2014.   For ...
Judicial Experimentation and Public Policy: A New Approach to the Right to Education in Brazil

Judicial Experimentation and Public Policy: A New Approach to the Right to Education in Brazil

Should judges interfere with the enforcement of public policies implemented by the executive? If yes, what would ...
Hämäläinen v Finland: The Transgender Divorce Requirement in Strasbourg

Hämäläinen v Finland: The Transgender Divorce Requirement in Strasbourg

In the landmark 2002 decision, Goodwin v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), citing an ...
Europol and the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Europol and the Fight Against Human Trafficking

On Tuesday 24th June the Human Trafficking Discussion Group (under the umbrella of the Oxford Migration Studies ...
The Sustainable Development Goals: a new vision of development?

The Sustainable Development Goals: a new vision of development?

On 19 July, after eighteen months of fraught negotiation, a UN Open Working Group of seventy governments adopted a ...
A Visit to the ‘Virtual World’ of Human Rights

A Visit to the ‘Virtual World’ of Human Rights

How can online collaboration be used to enhance the understanding and protection of human rights law around the ...
A Visit to the 'Virtual World' of Human Rights

A Visit to the 'Virtual World' of Human Rights

How can online collaboration be used to enhance the understanding and protection of human rights law around the ...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part II)

Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part II)

In a previous post, I reviewed the terms of the Government’s proposed new costs rule for interventions (cl 67, ...
OxHRH Part of Exciting New British Academy Projects

OxHRH Part of Exciting New British Academy Projects

The OxHRH was previously delighted to announce that it had secured a five-year funding grant from the British ...
UN sanctions: possible changes?

UN sanctions: possible changes?

In the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has adopted numerous sanctions not involving the use of armed ...