The delivery of healthcare tends to be neglected in much of the policy discussion despite its crucial role in determining many important health outcomes. Our new book, The Changing Role of the Hospital...
The term ‘slaves’ has taken on fresh and emotive resonances during the year 2020. Such resonances were far from my mind when choosing the title of this book – Are We Slaves to Our Genes? –...
The impetus behind the shaping of this book was my desire to experience the process of writing narrative history. And indeed, the story of modern Kabbalah is both compelling and instructive for grasping...
As clashes over race have become pressing in many countries around the globe, the challenge of understanding the legacies of slavery, colonisation, and exploitation has only sharpened. In 2017 Australian...
With the Covid-19 pandemic unfolding across the world, schools, universities, daycare centers and other places of learning went into lockdown. As a response, in many countries education went digital,...
The world is, and has always been, very short on justice. The recent Black Lives Matter movement is just another example in a long line of collective appeals to repair historical injustices. In my book...
International organizations are becoming increasingly powerful. In recent decades states have steadily been conferring powers upon international organizations in order to solve transnational problems...
AI-based applications raise new, so far unresolved legal questions, and consumer law is no exception. The use of self-learning algorithms in Big Data analysis gives companies the opportunity to gain a...
By any standards, the Archbasilica of St John Lateran in Rome is a remarkable place. The world’s first cathedral, and the seat of the Pope; it is known as the mater et caput, the mother and head, of...
Some of the permanent members of the UN Security Council periodically use their veto (i.e., negative vote)—or threat of veto—to stop resolutions aimed at preventing or stopping the commission of core...
What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years. Someone at Cambridge University...
Co-author of The Kestrel, David Costantini, discusses why the Kestrel is so important to him and his inspiration behind co-writing a book all about them.