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Women in politics are everywhere. Vice President Kamala Harris quickly emerged as the Democratic nominee when Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in Summer 2024. Republican Nikki Haley was...
Deterrence has long served as a justification for legal punishment of crime. The logic? Fear of punishment will cause individuals, groups, organizations, and the like to reduce their criminal...
This blog celebrates publication of Facing death across cultures, a book four years in the making, begun as the pandemic first erupted. Inspiration for the book germinated two decades ago, when I was...
Japan is a democracy, yet electoral competition is utterly dominated by a single party. For sixty-six of the past seventy years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled Japan’s government. ...
The way we work has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as the latest catalyst for unprecedented change. Workplaces around the world are now defined by virtual...
We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary...
When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves...
What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward...
Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed...
On Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary,...
The age of electronic evidence: challenges and the need for cooperation of service providers In today’s digital age, where information and communication technologies have revolutionised how we communicate,...
Who is responsible for your constitutional rights? The traditional answer is that constitutions create obligations for the state. So, state or government actors are responsible for upholding rights, from...
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