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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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When you mix prized home-crafted beer brewed by a professor of law with long-suffering colleagues prepared to regularly be used as a tasting panel for new types of beer, you may get a lot of creative ideas and may even end up with a book entitled ‘Beer Law’. This book, Beer Law, is believed to […]
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In response to insufficient climate action from the legislative and executive branches of government, there has been a marked rise in litigation as a key means of ensuring accountability and advancing climate responses. With more than 2,500 climate-related cases filed globally to date, this area of law is experiencing rapid growth across continents and jurisdictions, […]
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