Journalists, China-watchers and academics have fiercely debated the legacy of China’s leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. Some see the Hu–Wen period (2002–2012) as a “golden era” of rapid growth, while others portray it as a “lost decade” for economic and political reform.…
On 9 December 2016, the Swiss government presented the Swiss National Action Plan on the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.…
Have you read the autumn issue of Legal Information Management? It features an opening article by Dvora Liberman relating to the critical role of the court clerk in Crown Courts.…
National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights: An Initial Analysis of Plans from 2013-2018 Three years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the UN Human Rights Council called on all Member States to develop National Action Plans to support implementation of the UNGPs.*…
Recent arrivals of thousands of forced migrants in Europe have prompted reconsideration of international responses to refugee movements of the early twentieth century.…
Terrorism, while not new in the history of humanity, has become a major issue and challenge for contemporary society worldwide. Recently it has become embodied and symbolized by ISIS in its many permutations in the Middle East, the focus of massive military intervention on the part of major world powers and of study, analysis, strategy and planning.…
“Every day, people go missing amidst conflict and violence, or on the paths of exile, displacement or migration. Meanwhile, those whose loved ones went missing in the past continue to live with their pain, unable to heal.…
Over the last two days, my posts have highlighted the lack of academic speakers at the UN Forum. In this final post, I will address the problems with how women academics, in particular, have been included in the Forum.…
The honour of delivering one of the opening speeches at the Sanremo Roundtable on the topic of the deprivation of liberty and armed conflicts has made me stop and reflect on my own experiences as a young delegate doing detention visits.…
In my last post, I explained why academics are a distinct stakeholder group at the Forum, and what it is that we add for others.…
When twitter clued me in that the Speakers List was up for this year’s UN Forum on business and human rights, I was excited to see how many academics, and how many female academics, were on this year’s panel.…
The inaugural International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) publishing workshop was held on Wednesday November 14th in London. The event was jointly organised by Cambridge University Press (CUP), the journal’s publisher, and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), ICLQ’s academic home.…
As everyone throughout the world must have heard by now, Trump’s America is deeply divided. It’s not easy to unite Democrats, Republicans, and tech workers, but Google has managed to do just that.…
Introduction Clearcast’s decision to ‘ban’ the Christmas advertisement belonging to frozen food retailer Iceland backfired spectacularly last week with over 600,000 people signing an online petition calling for the ad to be allowed to air on TV.…
In March 2017, France took a landmark step to implement human rights due diligence through legally-binding legislation. This presents a unique opportunity to prevent risks of abuse linked to corporate activity while providing easier access to remedy for victims.…
The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) published its first issue in 2016, and since then it has established itself as the focal point for cutting-edge debate on a full range of business and human rights (BHR) issues.…
September 20, 2018 marked one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was declared open for signature. Its adoption confirmed that a clear majority of States unequivocally reject nuclear weapons on moral, humanitarian and now legal grounds.…
Human rights in war? For many, it creates a feeling of cognitive dissonance − the mental clash that occurs in our brain when right and wrong are placed in the same category. So it does for David Petraeus, the retired US Army general and former CIA director, whose critique of humanizing warfare through human rights law has brought the question to the fore again.
Fighting in cities today causes immense suffering, massive displacement and enormous reconstruction costs. How can devastation on this scale be avoided in the future?…
Hot off the presses: The CJLS editorial team is excited to announce the release of its most recent annual special issue: “Decolonizing Labour Law — Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law,” guest edited by Canada’s leading expert on transnational labour law Adelle Blackett.…
‘It is not the movement of persons that is the problem, it is the movement of persons without the protection of fundamental rights and norms.’…
The current discussions on the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees have placed migration and refugee policies high on the multilateral agenda.…
Cambridge University Press exists to advance knowledge, learning and research. As part of our purpose, we disseminate high-quality research and drive its impact and reach, working with the academic communities we support.…
At Cambridge University Press, we recognize that the central promise of the Open movement—that an open scholarly ecosystem will accelerate the ability of research to solve problems—is of the highest importance to our communities.
You can access Chapter 1 ‘Understanding Legal Regimes’ of Ruling Before the Law for free until the 3rd September 2018. Many people have long assumed that several good things go together. …
When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about how anti-communist witch hunters in the late 1940s and 1950s attacked teachers and professors, and about the Supreme Court’s eventual (and much-belated) response in 1967–striking down a typical state loyalty law and announcing that academic freedom is a “a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.”…
The notion of ‘the family’ has received considerable treatment in international and regional human rights courts in recent years. This was the subject of a paper published in the October 2017 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) by Professors John Eekelaar and Fareda Banda, which was selected as the 2018 ICLQ Annual Lecture.…
The rule of law and human rights are core normative ideas for law, yet their intrinsic value and application is contested.…
Cambridge University Press was pleased to chair a panel on socio-legal publishing at the Law and Society Association/Canadian Law and Society Association Joint Meeting in Toronto in June 2018.…
In recognition of World Refugee Day 2018 you can access the chapter Enfranchisement of Recognised CSR1951 Refugees in Elections of Their States of Asylum from Ruvi Ziegler’s new book, Voting Rights of Refugees until the 20th July 2018.…
In 2017 the ICRC unveiled ‘War in Cities / Villes en Guerre’—an exhibition on the catastrophic impact that urban warfare has on the civilian population.…
It has been a busy nine months since Lady Hale assumed formal leadership of the UK Supreme Court. During this time she has sworn-in three new colleagues, lead the court on a historic sitting in Northern Ireland, delivered or contributed to judgments in relation to police investigations of violent crime, cohabitee’s pension rights, the treatment of Alfie Evans and smoking bans, spoken to university students, school pupils and west London law clinic volunteers, travelled overseas, delivered speeches on marriage reform, legal aid, religious dress, and the upcoming anniversary of women’s entry into the legal profession, overseen a senior appointments round, and – of course – made an appearance on BBC’s Masterchef.…
Humanitarian actors, faced with ongoing conflict, epidemics, famine and a range of natural disasters, are increasingly being asked to do more with less.…
The latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross focuses on treatment and conditions in prisons and other places of detention, both in situations of armed conflict and in peacetime.…
Professors Curtis Bradley and Laurence Helfer began their four-year tenures as co-Editors-in-Chief of the prestigious American Journal of International Law (AJIL) on April 5. Their election was approved by the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) on October 27, 2017 after an earlier unanimous vote of the AJIL Board of Editors.
The editorial perspective For any journal article you write, your first readers will be the journal’s editorial staff and peer reviewers, aside from any colleagues who see your work while you are still working on it.…
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CELEBRATE WOMEN IN ACADEMIA FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March), Cambridge University Press (the Press) has made a collection of inspirational work written by, or about, leading academics and pioneers such as Marie Curie, Margaret Atwood and Angela Merkel, available to read for free online.…
On March 8th, all over the world, we celebrate the International Women’s Day. This important day was initiated by socialist women in the beginning of the 20th century, and in 1975 was adopted by the UN “to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.…
This post by John Owen first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2016. It is based on his article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
This post by Denise Garcia first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2016. It is based on her article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
This post by Elke Krahmann first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2016. It is based on her article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
This post by Jef Huysmans first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in December 2015. It is based on his article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
The July 2017 issue (6:2) of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Elena Merino Blanco and Ben Pontin examining jurisdictional grounds for hearing foreign tort claims, with reference to recent and ongoing oil pollution nuisance litigation involving Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its Nigerian subsidiary operating in the Niger Delta.…
This post by Vincent Pouliot first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in December 2015. It is based on his article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
The rash of increased attacks on human rights defenders (HRDs) who speak up against business-related impacts on people and the environment was a key issue on the agenda of the 2017 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017).…
In our role of guiding and chairing the sixth annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017), we were encouraged to see that interest in the business and human rights agenda continues to grow.…
In 2018, Intersentia’s books will be exclusively available to institutions online via Cambridge University Press’s Academic digital publishing platform Cambridge Core.…
If I asked you to imagine a crime scene photograph, chances are that you would have a clear idea of what it should look like: a disarranged room, visual clues to the crime, sometimes blood or a body.…
In a rapidly changing world, political, economic, environmental and social crises are forcing people to move across regions and borders in pursuit of a better future.…
The publication of “Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Perspectives of Richard Falk” is a bonus book that has grown out of my ongoing project about the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal on American War crimes in Vietnam.…
This post sketches the themes of the article “Vaccines for Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases: Towards Defining the Space of EU Public Health between Security Policy and a Transnational Market” (accessible free of charge until 10 January 2018), just published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation.…
To many, the recent WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires (MC11) was a disappointment because there was a deadlock over the Doha Development Round.…
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