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How has Europe’s century-spanning history of colonialism shaped the development of the European Union (EU) legal order? The book Colonialism and the EU Legal Order edited by Hanna Eklund explore this question across 16 chapters and analyses how colonialism has had an impact on the drafting and application of EU law, on the methods of […]
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Music forms the soundtrack that accompanies and brightens our daily lives. It is one of the very few endeavours that unite us all. Its intrinsic value is undeniable. However, this often does not translate into economic value. In the streaming era, instantaneous music accessibility is the norm. It is deceptively easy to forget the artistic […]
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First, in China, mediation is not the “soft periphery” of law but one of the system’s operating cores. It is embedded across institutions: from people’s mediation at the grassroots, to court-led or court-annexed programs, to specialist venues in commercial, labour, and family fields. Even in Shanghai, China’s most developed and open city, the majority of […]
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One afternoon, having just clocked in, I sat down next to a resident of the care home where I worked in the mid-2010s and asked her what she thought about the programme she was watching on TV. Looking away from me, with a wry smile, she answered, “Well, I can relate to it”. The programme […]
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Two enduring truths shape the study of human rights. First, states violate the rights of their own citizens at an alarmingly high rate. Second, these same states are rarely held accountable for their actions. Despite decades of international advocacy, treaties, and tribunals, impunity remains the norm. My new book, Escaping Justice: State Impunity in the Age […]
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Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
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For more than a century, the legal profession in the United States has tightly controlled the delivery of legal services. Lawyers enjoy a monopoly: only licensed attorneys can provide legal advice, represent clients in court, and prepare most legal documents for others. This exclusive domain has been zealously guarded through sweeping unauthorised practice of law […]
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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
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