Can an Algorithm Decide Who Is a Child? Facial Age Estimation and the Benefit of the Doubt at the UK Border
From 2027, the UK Home Office plans to introduce facial age estimation technology at the border as an additional tool for assessing the age of individuals whose claimed age is...
Lest We Forget: The Gambian FGM Ban at the Supreme Court and Why Women’s Rights are at Stake
There is a looming constitutional crisis and an atrocious legal battle unfolding in The Gambia, where the fate of the country’s prohibition of female genital mutilation (FGM) now stands before...
Seeing What the Law Cannot: Open-Source Investigation as a Missing Tool in Modern Slavery Enforcement
In 2023, migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh claimed they had been trafficked to Malaysia and forced to work making parts for the Dyson manufacturer. In Limbu v Dyson Technology...
Karnataka Law on Honour Crimes: Excluding Interfaith Couples Fails the Equality Guarantee of India’s Constitution
State of Karnataka recently enacted the Karnataka Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Prevention and Prohibition of Crimes in the Name of Honour and Tradition (Eva Nammava Eva Nammava) Act,...
Making Apartheid Irreversible: Israel’s Death Penalty Statutes and Third State Obligations
When the Israeli Knesset voted to approve the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill on 30 March 2026, it made irreversible through state-administered killing what the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
When Protection Becomes Punishment: India’s POCSO Act, Adolescent Autonomy, and the Limits of the Bright Line
On 16 April 2026, the Delhi High Court in Harmeet Singh v. State (GNCT of Delhi) quashed a criminal case against a young man whose only “victim” – the seventeen-year-old...
A Renewed Push for Stringent Funding Restrictions on NGOs: India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2026, introduced in India’s Lok Sabha (House of the People), which is the part of the Lower House of the Legislature of the Union...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part II
The first part of this discussion examined the growing tendency of powerful states not merely to violate international legal rules but to reshape their meaning through increasingly expansive interpretations of...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part I
One of international law’s oldest and most hard-won achievements risks being dismantled in plain sight, and the legal community has apparently not yet reckoned with what that would mean in...
The Persistence of Witch Hunting in India: A Crisis of Legal Enforcement and State Responsibility
In July 2025, a mob in Bihar’s Purnea district hacked to death and burned five members of a Scheduled Tribe family, including three women, on accusations of witchcraft. The incident...
Religious Autonomy and Genuine Occupational Requirements: The CJEU’s Judgment in Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v JB
In Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v JB the CJEU returned to consider the question of how to balance the right of religious organisations to religious autonomy with the right of their staff...
Policing the Womb: The Re-Criminalisation of Abortion in Kenya
Every day in Kenya, approximately seven women die from unsafe abortions. This statistic represents a preventable tragedy driven by a legal environment where the 1963 Penal Code remains in direct...
