Telling the Whole Truth: Post-Assault Contact in Sexual Violence Cases
For the last 16 months, Canadians have been engaged in extraordinary conversations connected to the sexual assault ...
Criminal Justice and Fair Trial
Justice Antonin Scalia’s Rebuke of Innocence
Throughout his thirty-year service on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether ...
SAJAP: Facilitating Justice in Namibia
Last year, we featured reflections from Claire Palmer and Rachel Clement on their experiences working as OPBP ...
Sentencing and the Possibility of Reform in India
Last month the Supreme Court of India took a regressive step by affirming a 2008 decision (Swamy Shradhanand) in ...
Minorities suffer as the Supreme Court supports ‘suspicionless’ stop searches
In Roberts v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Another, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ...
The Power of Perception: The ICC and Africa
At a recent event organised by Oxford Transitional Justice Research and the ICC Student Network, Judge Cuno ...
Rape Law in Morocco
The Moroccan Conseil national des droits de l’Homme (National Human Rights Council, CNDH) has issued a worrying ...
The Meaning of Life Imprisonment – The Case of Khoroshenko v. Russia
Life imprisonment is a harsh sanction that is used in most countries in the world. Evidence from treaty bodies, ...
Justifying Deadly Force in the American Supreme Court
The case of City of Los Angeles v. Contreras, currently up for first-round consideration before the Supreme Court ...
Tackling Moral Policing in Mumbai: A Human Rights Approach
In the latest news on moral policing, earlier this month the Mumbai police conducted a round of raids across ...
A Human Rights Perspective of the Supreme Court Verdict on the Basic Structure Doctrine
In a recent verdict by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (“SCP”), the constitutionality of, inter alia, the 21st ...
Keeping Abreast of Hong Kong’s ‘Breast Assault’ Case: A Legal and Feminist Critique
All men are equal, but some men are more equal than others – others as in women, regrettably. It may not be ...
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