Constitutions and Human Rights

The View Beyond Brexit: Equality Rights in Northern Ireland After Divorce (with Evelyn Collins)

The View Beyond Brexit: Equality Rights in Northern Ireland After Divorce (with Evelyn Collins)

The EU has played an important role both internationally and domestically in EU member states, in developing and protecting equality rights in the interest of ensuring peace and security. UK...
The Impact of Brexit on Human Rights in Northern Ireland (with Colin Harvey)

The Impact of Brexit on Human Rights in Northern Ireland (with Colin Harvey)

On December 8 2017, news broke that the UK has reached a deal with the EU. Theresa May announced that there would be no hard border between Ireland and Northern...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Building Support for Litigation

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Building Support for Litigation

Public interest lawyering is not confined to the four walls of the court room. Lawyers do not only need to master legal tools and techniques, they also need to tap...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Timing the Litigation

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Timing the Litigation

In realizing a right to education, lawyers need to move beyond the nuts and bolts of the law and consider these broader issues. We start with the tricky issue of...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: The Role of the Client

Learning Lessons from Litigators: The Role of the Client

It is always tempting to focus on the public interest aspects of the claim but it is crucial not to lose sight of the client. The lawyer has to strike...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Framing the Litigation

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Framing the Litigation

Lawyers must make numerous decisions throughout the litigation—both legal and non-legal. This can raise a confusing minefield of both promises and pitfalls. In this block, we look at the legal...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Innovative Strategies

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Innovative Strategies

The unique nature of public interest lawyering—using court process to prompt transformative change—requires lawyers to be creative. Lawyers must have a strong knowledge of the law and a strong imagination...
Coup and Constitution in Zimbabwe Part 2: A Path Back to Constitutionalism

Coup and Constitution in Zimbabwe Part 2: A Path Back to Constitutionalism

In my previous post, I observed that the military action in Zimbabwe – whatever name it goes by – made a profound rupture in the rule of law and that...
Coup and Constitution in Zimbabwe Part 1: The Military Action is Profoundly Unconstitutional

Coup and Constitution in Zimbabwe Part 1: The Military Action is Profoundly Unconstitutional

On 14 November 2017, the Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) took control of key parts of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. Military personnel placed tanks and military vehicles on arterial roads, seized the...
Australia Denies Political Participation as an Indigenous Human Right

Australia Denies Political Participation as an Indigenous Human Right

Political participation is a human right affirmed and contextualised for indigenous peoples under the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Australia was one of four post-settler colonial...
The Supreme Countdown: The Fortnight That Shaped Kenya’s Presidential Determination and Beyond

The Supreme Countdown: The Fortnight That Shaped Kenya’s Presidential Determination and Beyond

Since 1 September 2017, when the Supreme Court of Kenya nullified the Presidential election, the spotlight shifted to the final judgment of the apex court. Least remembered, and understandably so,...
Were the Kenyan Presidential Elections, 2017 a true reflection of the electorate’s will? An interrogation of the answer given by the Supreme Court of Kenya

Were the Kenyan Presidential Elections, 2017 a true reflection of the electorate’s will? An interrogation of the answer given by the Supreme Court of Kenya

The determination on the exercise and protection of the electorate’s political rights was before the bench in the Supreme Court of Kenya’s decision in Raila Amolo Odinga & Anor v...

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