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  • 25 May 2023
    Alla Pozdnakova, Froukje Maria Platjouw

    Our Oceans are in Jeopardy! Can we trust the Rule of Law to fix it?

    Several important legal events have happened to the ocean environment lately. The 29th of March 2023 was a historical day for the international rule of law to prevail. On this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice to clarify states’ obligations to tackle […]

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  • 15 May 2023
    Margherita Pieraccini

    Regulating the Sea: a socio-legal analysis of English Marine Protected Areas

    Marine biodiversity loss is one of the biggest and most urgent environmental problems the planet is facing. Despite global and national policy calls for marine conservation and the development of legal instruments in recent years, marine conservation regulation in England has been understudied. The main reason for writing this book was to fill this academic […]

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  • 30 Apr 2023
    Matthias Mahlmann

    Human rights secured? Don’t bet on it!

    1. Challenges ahead Human rights are contested. This comes as no surprise because they always have been. In recent years, however, new forms of criticism have emerged that merit close attention because of at least four reasons: First, these (often radical) criticisms may be justified and thus provide insights and a better guide to action […]

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  • 27 Apr 2023
    Stephen J Toope

    The Rule of Law in Anxious Times

    Undocumented migrants die in deserts, in winter snowdrifts and in turbulent seas. Authoritarian populist leaders jail political opponents, attack the judicial branch of government, and silence independent media. Increasing economic inequality sends more and more people to food banks while a privileged few buy eye-wateringly expensive properties in the English countryside, or in Manhattan, Sydney […]

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  • 24 Apr 2023
    Gary Watt

    Make Making Great Again

    The idea of society as a manufactured construct had a respectable pedigree long before Donald Trump got his hands on it with his grabbing slogan “Make America Great Again”. In 1796, George Washington had expressed the hope in his farewell address to the American people “that the free Constitution, which is the work of your […]

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  • 14 Apr 2023
    James Gallen

    Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

    Why does it seem like there is persistent disclosure but also dissatisfaction regarding non-recent violence and how it is addressed? In countries from Australia, to Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, victim-survivors have been advocating for States and Christian churches to address allegations of non-recent violence, including child sexual abuse, forced transfer, […]

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  • 5 Apr 2023
    Wendy E. Parmet

    How Courts Make Us Sick

    More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Lars Brink, David Orden

    Farm Subsidies and International Trade Rules

    Farm subsidies and international trade rules are the subjects of a new 2023 book Agricultural Domestic Support under the WTO: Experience and Prospects. Why now? ‘It could not be more topical’ said a high-level trade official when the book appeared. The European Union, the United States, Japan, and many other countries supported and protected farm production massively […]

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