The Future of Socio-Economic Rights in Nigeria: Beyond COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the enjoyment of human rights in various countries, particularly ...
Role of the Judiciary
Ireland: Historic Victory for Environmental Campaigners
In a landmark decision, the Irish Supreme Court has unanimously quashed what it termed the Irish Government’s ...
Climate Fund Case: Climate Litigation reaches the Brazilian Supreme Court
Hailed as a milestone in Brazilian climate change litigation, a landmark decision by the Supreme Court has ...
The Broken State of Capital Sentencing in India’s Trial Courts
Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi analysed judgments of all capital cases (215 in total) across trial ...
Proportionality and Constitutional Review
There is a temptation to think that issues of normative choice and balancing are more complex in public than ...
The Judicial Role in the Surveillance State
The courts' responsibility to check abuses of power is heightened in a context where secrecy reigns.
The Surveillance State, Privacy and Criminal Investigation in India: Possible Futures in a Post-Puttaswamy World
With a strong conception of privacy focussed on individual liberty after Puttaswamy, there is now a starting point ...
Proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act to disadvantage UK war crimes victims
On 18 March 2020, the UK Minister for Defence introduced into the UK Parliament his promised package of new ...
The UK Supreme Court’s “One Off” Judgment
It was a "one off". A conclusive determination on a series of seismic constitutional clashes: representative ...
Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement and common law judges’ extrajudicial opinions
During the recent anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, a High Court judge participated by signing a petition ...
‘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 ...
González Carreño v. Spain: What can be Expected from the Spanish Supreme Court’s Ruling?
In what has been earmarked as a ‘revolutionary’ judgment in the field of international human rights law, the ...
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