Human Rights Law in the UK: Themes and Principles
📖 @universitypress.cambridge.org has published 'Human Rights Law in the UK: Themes and Principles' by Kirsty Hughes, @steviesmartin.bsky.social and Stephanie Palmer - a rich and analytical guide to the complex landscape of human rights law
For more info: 🔗 bit.ly/48U1gPj
It is finally here! It only took five years and two babies... www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
It’s all but certain that by 2029 Trump will have appointed 5 Supreme Court justices, and nontrivially likely that he will have appointed 7.
Poster for Warwick Seminar Series
Not convinced my musings are going to be as good as this epic poster! 🔥
But on 13th Jan, I'm looking forward to discussing with and learning from Olauluwa Oni about law, literature and (de)colonial utopias.
The Sean Brown JR is being handed down this morning. Full judgment not yet available, but Humphreys J in the High Court has ordered a FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY as the only way to fulfill the UK's right to life obligation. Hilary Benn had previously directed the family to ICRIR:
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
@finishedloading.bsky.social and I look at the Brown judgment from yesterday, in which the NI High Court granted mandamus compelling the holding of a public inquiry for the first time in a Troubles-related case.
Far from being radical, we think it was entirely in keeping with recent UKSC authority.
The Jwanczuk case, important for many reasons including the correct approach to remedies under the HRA, will be heard from 11-12 March 2025 and will be heard by Lords Reed, Lloyd-Jones, Stephens and Richards and Lady Simler.
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
Many of you asked me what I think of George Letsas’s argument that KlimaSeniorinnen was not an actio popularis because (and only because) the association represented future generations. So I did a blogpost (after a very enjoyable exchange with George himself!): www.ejiltalk.org?mailpoet_rou...
Good news: "Montana’s top court on Wednesday held that the state’s constitution guaranteed a right to a stable climate system and invalidated a law barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects." #climatelitigation #Montana
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Very significant climate change judgment from the Montana Supreme Court. dailymontanan.com/wp-content/u...
Republicans are now making women have babies that will die because “life.”
Please spread the word! We are recruiting 2 peer researchers (age 16-25) for our research project on young people’s experiences of racism and discrimination in health
All the information is available here:
raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/health-care/....
This blog is a must-read for anyone thinking about (the co-optation of) restorative justice in academia.
It gets to the heart of a crucial question: If we're focused on restoring a perpetrator to the position of power they abused, can we call it justice?
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-canc...
Quote from our published article by author Milka Sormunen: „The politicization of the Constitutional Law Committee may have peaked with the pushback law because asylum-seekers are considered marginal in society. In this context, the question of whose rights are affected becomes more important than which rights and based on which criteria these rights can – or cannot – be limited.“
Finland’s pushback law was greenlit by the Constitutional Law Committee despite violating the Constitution, human rights obligations and EU law.
MILKA SORMUNEN on the troubling politicization of Finland’s ex ante constitutional review process.
verfassungsblog.de/politicizing...
One of the main aims of the Legacy Act was to shut down legacy inquests in NI. It is painful to see families have to fight just to get to even get back through the doors of the inquest system with its representation for parties. This case shows why it really matters:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Going to start teaching originalist tort law and just scream “vengeance!” the whole time.
Legislative drafting: why 2 big ideas about it don't track its reality and what that reality is (from my own doctoral research).
Thrilled to have written something about my actual thesis for once instead of tepidly shitposting about Stormont, Whitehall and the Windsor Framework.
We stand here in solidarity with 27 small island developing states threatened in their very existence - we are the third most vulnerable nation to the effects of climate change and SIDS are disproportionately affected says AG of Tonga Linda Simiki Folaumoetu'i at the ICJ.
On 12 December 1982, 30,000 women held hands around the six-mile perimeter fence of Greenham Common in protest against the UK government's decision to site American cruise missiles there. For nineteen years women maintained their presence at the Greenham Common peace camp. #OTD
Great @ejiltalk.bsky.social post on #Israel's use of force in #Syria, with the important point that it is not Assad or his regime that international law continuously protects from the use of military force but the state.
www.ejiltalk.org/israels-use-...
“In New York, a mother with no history of drug use lost custody of her toddler and newborn for five months after she tested positive for fentanyl that the hospital had given her in her epidural.”
Good thread on refugee law and cessation of refugee status. Some quick extra thoughts:
1. States should not revoke refugee status until it is clear that a durable solution has been reached in the country of origin.
Watch a video interview with Romanian representatives discussing how the #IstanbulConvention has improved victims’ access to essential support and health services.
#Romania #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #VictimSupport #HumanRights #GenderEquality
In 2023, our team created an interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established — and could take away.
Most rights are based in statute, but rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn. ⤵️
Issue 6/6 and the last of 2024. It includes our usual ECHR and EU CFR bulletins, separate ECHR case analyses, and three excellent articles reflecting really interesting and varied research being conducted in human rights law in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Cover page of journal article titled “Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law.”
People who seek asylum face political, social, and legal hostilities. In my new article, I explore how such hostilities function as an “emotional grammar” of refugee law in the UK, especially when determining someone’s queerness, credibility, and persecution. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The Long-Awaited Election of a Judge to the ECtHR in Respect of Poland | by Anca Ailincai
The #IstanbulConvention on combating violence against women is more than a treaty: it’s a lifeline for women and girls!
The Convention is based on four pillars:
#Prevention
#Protection
#Prosecution
#CoordinatedPolicies
Learn more: www.coe.int/en/web/istan...
