Comparative Human Rights Law Book Launch: Sandy Fredman in Conversation with Edwin Cameron
This is a special episode of RightsUp, which takes Sandy Fredman’s new book, Comparative Human Rights Law, as a ...
Constitutions and Human Rights
The UK Supreme Court’s “One Off” Judgment
It was a "one off". A conclusive determination on a series of seismic constitutional clashes: representative ...
Prorogation: Three Assumptions
Litigation is often predicated on certain assumptions. These may be the result of argumentation of the parties, ...
Prorogation: A View from Canada
Just over a decade ago, large numbers of Canadians turned to Google’s search engine’s algorithm to shed light on a ...
Prorogation: Constitutional Principle and Law, Fact and Causation
The Prime Minister’s recent announcement that Parliament would be prorogued, thereby severely curtailing the ...
Playing Hardball with the Queen
The idea of constitutional hardball was introduced to the world by Mark Tushnet. The sport is played when ...
Constitutionality of India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019: India’s McCarthyism Moment
In a chilling throwback McCarthyism in the United States, India’s Parliament has passed the Unlawful Activities ...
South African Supreme Court of Appeal Confirms Remedy of ‘Constitutional Remedy’ for Homeless People Whose Property is Destroyed by State
On 3 April 2019, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down judgment in the matter of Ngomane ...
‘Beyond the Courtroom: Accountability for Grave and Systemic Human Rights Abuses’ (2019) U of OxHRH J 55
The institutional design of the UN inquiry procedure means that human rights abusers do not go unchallenged ...
A Human Rights Act for Queensland
Queensland is soon to be the third Australian jurisdiction with a statutory bill of rights. Earlier this month, ...
Human Rights, Criminal Law, and Rural and Native Communities in Peru
Recently, the Constitutional Court of Peru issued a judgment in the case 7009-2013-PHC/TC, concerning a writ of ...
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 ...
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