Oxford Law Faculty Equality and Diversity Lecture 2020: Professor Kendall Thomas
Editor’s Note: The Oxford Law Faculty’s Equality and Diversity Lecture 2020 was delivered by Professor Kendall Thomas on 4 November 2020. This post, originally an introduction to Professor Thomas during...
Art as Justice: Public Memory and Torture
I teach human rights at a law school that will forever be associated with the Bush Administration’s torture policy. John Yoo, one of the principal authors of the Torture Memo...
RBG: Advancing Justice in the Criminal Legal System
Over the course of her 27-year tenure as a United States Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg consistently voted to protect the rights of the marginalized and dispossessed, reflecting an...
Police Brutality in the United States (with Shea Streeter)
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Shea Streeter about the seemingly intractable issue of...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Reading of the Fair Housing Act: An Interpretive Approach Aligned with Legislative Policy
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s long tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court produced a limited but meaningful body of work in fair housing cases. Although overshadowed by her historic rulings on gender-based...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Equality
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September, the U.S. Supreme Court lost one of its last remaining champions of the least powerful members of American society. Justice Ginsburg’s deep...
The Early Years: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks the Cage [Blog Series on US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
In 1972, the year I was born, a young law professor became the founding director of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. Ruth Bader Ginsburg built the groundwork for modern feminist...
Introduction: The “Notorious R.B.G.” [Blog Series: The Legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
On September 18, 2020, the first evening of the Jewish New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. By “Jewish tradition, a person who...
On the grounds of sex’: SCOTUS brings sexual orientation within the ambit of Title VII
On June 15 2020, the US Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids termination of employees because of their...
The US ‘Snapback Sanctions’ on Iran Tantamount to Crimes Against Humanity
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term Nuclear Deal on its nuclear programme with the world powers known as the P5+1 – the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. The...
Forced hysterectomies in detention: Immediate and long-term responses to ICE abuse needed
On September 14, 2020, Project South and whistleblower Dawn Pooten filed a complaint with the US Department of Homeland Security alleging forced hysterectomies at an Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC),...
Schrems II: Data Privacy Triumphs Over Mass Surveillance
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its anticipated judgement in the Schrems case, invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield which had been the mode of transferring data...
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