Learning Lessons from Litigators: The Right to Education
The right to education means different things in different contexts, and that’s because the law varies so widely ...
Role of the Judiciary
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Public Interest Lawyering
What can lawyers do? Public interest litigation differs in important ways from other kinds of litigation because ...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Deciding to Go to Court
It is crucial at the beginning stages to develop a sophisticated and context-sensitive strategy on how to develop ...
Kenya Enacts Contempt of Court Act to Uphold the Right to a Fair Trial
For a long time, the law on contempt of court in Kenya was outdated and quite unsatisfactory. However, Kenya ...
Limitations on the Remedial Powers of the Inter-American System of Human Rights
In 2001, the Supreme Court of Argentina gave a judgment against Jorge Fontevecchia and Héctor D’Amico for ...
Treaty Amendments and Access to Justice at the East African Court
On 31 March 2017 the East African Court of Justice (‘the Court’) handed down its judgment in the case of Steven ...
Courts and contempt powers in India: The case of Jolly LLB-2
Although the Legislature and the Executive are the subject of regular political satire in India, last month the ...
The Religious Views of Judges and Human Rights Adjudication: A Reply to Bamforth and Barber
Two blog contributions have recently discussed the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court and ...
Judge Neil Gorsuch: A Reply to Nicholas Bamforth
At the start of March, Nick Bamforth wrote a blog post for this site examining Judge Neil Gorsuch’s ‘Academic ...
Judge Gorsuch’s Academic Pedigree
In articles published on 4th February 2017, the Times and Guardian newspapers drew attention to the intellectual ...
China’s New Circuit Tribunals Allow Tighter Control of Judiciary
China's new system of circuit tribunals makes access to the justice system more convenient for ordinary citizens. ...
The U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Conventions, and President Trump
What is most concerning about the conduct of Donald Trump during and since the 2016 presidential campaign is not ...
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