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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 6 Aug 2026
    Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom

    Why the ECOWAS Court Matters for Women’s Rights in Africa

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court)’s transformation from an economic tribunal into one of Africa’s leading regional human rights courts is nothing short of remarkable. Since 2005, when the ECOWAS Court was given a human rights mandate, nearly 90% of the cases it handles have been human […]

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  • 5 Aug 2026
    Frederick Toates

    Motivation 2026

    The year 2026 marks 40 years since publication of the first edition of my book ‘Motivational Systems’ by C.U.P.. So, 2026 is an important year for the publication of the 2nd edition of the book. This time it has the sub-title ‘A Biopsychological Introduction’. The reason for the addition of the subtitle is that this […]

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  • 4 Aug 2026
    Morag Goodwin

    The Batwa as global legal subjects: progress, belonging and Rwandanness

    How does law – and, in particular, global law – structure the social space within which we live our lives? My new book, Twa in Rwanda: Situating Global Discourses of Indigeneity, Conservationism and Development in Daily Life, shifts focus from the top-down framing of global law to how legal power is enacted in everyday practices […]

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  • 3 Aug 2026
    Dennis Denisoff

    Victorian Flower Boxes and the Roots of Eco-Activism

    Tankers and pipelines spill their toxic contents into oceans and wetlands, the AI industry guzzles massive amounts of water, and imperialist warmongers decimate animals, species, and biosystems across our planet. And yet, through it all, my community’s Facebook group has remained focused, instead, on excoriating a thoughtless litterbug and a band of noisy ATVers who […]

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  • 3 Aug 2026
    Adam Smith, Peter Collins

    Taking the England out of English

    The English language has travelled a long way from its origins on an obscure but fertile North Atlantic island, cobbled together with the various tongues of a series of invaders from mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Colonisation has transported English across the globe, creating distinct varieties in every region from America to India, South Africa to […]

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  • 31 Jul 2026
    Gabrielle Thomas

    The Devil does not Explain Evil

    One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered alternative accounts of suffering and human behaviour, so the story goes, Jews and Christians appealed to Satan to explain why bad things […]

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  • 31 Jul 2026
    Chad Engelland

    Is There Good Reason ‘God’ Is Hidden?

    Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist. For if God really were all loving and all powerful, he would take pains to be known by […]

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  • 31 Jul 2026
    András Sajó

    How the Rule of Law Survives Legal Authoritarianism?

    The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government. The twenty-first century presents a different challenge. Increasingly, constitutional democracy is not dismantled outside the legal order but transformed from within. Constitutions are amended, courts are restructured, electoral laws […]

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