There can be no more fitting a day to publish a collection of articles focused on migrants’ rights than 18 December, International Migrants Day.…
Cambridge University Press is excited to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed, Gold Open Access journal for 2022. Memory, Mind & Media will be an agenda-setting interdisciplinary journal that explores the impact of media and technology on human, social and cultural remembering and forgetting.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Central and Eastern Europe has often been forgotten from business and human rights discourse. Unjustifiably so. Whereas some European countries have been the front-runners in developments in business and human rights standards, several challenges, including systematic business-related human rights abuses, have been prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).…
The late twentieth and early twenty first centuries have […] come to be widely touted as the era of human rights – a sentiment that captures both the preponderance of rights-talk and the immense promise that it invariably carries.…
Dear readers, We hope you are well. We’re here with an early end-of-year present: a wonderfully eclectic new issue of the German Law Journal taking you to all corners of the world.…
Find out more about Cambridge's partnership with Research4Life which opens up our collection to 125 lowere and middle income countries.
Our 2019 article Rights Holders’ Participation and Access to Remedies: Lessons Learned from the Doce River Dam Disaster analyses remediation efforts that followed the collapse of the Fundão mining tailings dam in 2015 in Brazil which caused severe environmental, social, and economic losses.…
COVID-19 has placed the world on an economic rollercoaster unlike anything seen for generations. As the reality that COVID-19 and its effects will likely be with us for years to come, people and societies around the world long for a “return to normal”. …
The global financial system is a crucial part of the modern economy, directing financial capital efficiently and effectively to where it is most needed to create prosperity. …
To better manage our ecosystems, we must first improve our understanding of their value. Currently this understanding is limited since many ‘services’ that are provided to us by the environment are not reflected in the market.…
Drawing on their article for the European Journal of International Security, Jun Yan Chang and Nicole Jenne discuss ‘The paradox of defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia’ Defence diplomacy is usually promoted as a cooperative activity between the armed forces and related infrastructure of different states to build trust and confidence between said states.…
Some people stay with their current employer because they have to, they need the money. Others stay because they feel they ought to, the company needs them and it’s the right thing to do.…
The long-awaited Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights was published on 6 August 2020, bringing high hopes for accountability in cases of corporate human rights abuses (the Resource Centre’s unofficial summary of the latest draft is available here).…
When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction between repeated attacks on individuals from other African countries, and the idea of Ubuntu, a philosophical insistence on Afro-human solidarity championed most vigorously within the South African academy.…
Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) was only on the statute book for 41 days and not yet in force when Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash introduced a ballot measure asking Californians to exempt them from this key piece of state employment legislation.…
Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…
As per 28 September, the total COVID-19 cases in Indonesia reached 278,722, following a single day increase of 3,509 in new cases.…
‘Big Data on BHR: Innovative Approaches to Analysing the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Database’, a recently published article in the Business and Human Rights Journal, provides new insights into the study of business and human rights (BHR).…
The biggest lesson we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic is that we need to avoid the polarized extremes of either tight coupling or full de-coupling in favor of loose coupling as a new form of globalization with a proper balance between localization and globalization to manage the paradox of global interdependence.…
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods Dear Readers, We hope that the beginning of the academic year has been kind to you, and that you are all staying safe and healthy through the challenges of virtual, blended, and face-to-face teaching.…
Drawing upon her article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Laura J. Shepherd explores ‘The Paradox of Prevention in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’.…
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
I was sitting in a Beirut café reading Kundera when a blast rocked the city a few weeks ago, on August 4.…
In June 2014, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Party organised a press conference to present its new and detailed economic plan in Amman.…
In contemporary Iraq, there is an interesting and ever evolving interplay between non-state affiliated Shi’i seminaries, whose jurists have the authority to determine the content of Islamic law, and the state, which makes and enforces its own law. …
In July 2020, a High Court judgment in Begum v Maran was handed down where, for the first time, an English court has grappled with the controversial issue of “shipbreaking”.…
The summer issue of Legal Information Management is now available electronically from Cambridge University Press; print copies will be arriving in due course.…
How was it possible for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to become established as a major health care reform despite being highly controversial?…
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
One of the many crises the world faces today is the climate emergency. Greenhouse gas emissions are destabilizing the global climate, and mitigating this change requires ambitious economic plans to which polluters need to comply.…
As the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent success in containing it, China’s response to the pandemic has drawn worldwide attention.…
While the coordination of business activities through interpersonal ties and networks has been researched in management and organization studies, using informal networks for managing and organizing in an international context is a rather new research field.…
Since the August 4th explosion in Beirut, I have been unable to write. Honestly, I have been incapable of communicating much beyond anger and sorrow for my friends and colleagues affected.…
Since the beta launch of Higher Education from Cambridge University Press in June we have received positive feedback, including about the new HTML reading experience, the powerful search tool and the new Examination Copy request form.…
‘Generative resilience’ distinctively involves the imagination of the new in response to the unimagined – indeed a difficult operation, calling for particular forms of thinking, not only for particular structures.…
Dear Esteemed Readers, For some of us the academic year has already started, for some of us it is right around the corner; some will teach online, some will teach in person, some will do both; some will have the freedom of a sabbatical, and regret travel restrictions, some are in the middle of the application process to enter academia; wherever you are, whatever your mode of teaching or research will be, whatever position you are in professionally, the latest issue of the German Law Journal is there for all of you and offers some great and maybe distracting reading (something almost everyone is probably grateful for in these extraordinary times).…
In our recent article, Paula Sheppard and I tested the assumptions of life history theory, which is commonly used in evolutionary anthropology and related disciplines.…
**updated August 28, 2020** Elections for judges in the US don’t usually attract much controversy or attention, but the 2014 race for seats on the Montana Supreme Court was an exception.…
For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society.…
Prior to the advent of the Factories Act of 1883, India had seen the worst of an unregulated labour market, a convenient indentured labour base for the British Empire which saw workers as dispensable commodities to its profit-making industries.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
Publishing a journal article is an important part of our academic work, but the process can be challenging, particularly for early career scholars (ECSs) who often juggle precarious teaching and research contracts and need to have published articles before they can apply for a more secure job.…
The recent publication of both 2019 CiteScore™ and the 2019 Journal Citation Reports prompted us to have a look back on 2019 and celebrate what a standout year it was for Cambridge Journals.…
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
Drawing upon their article in vol.5, no.2 of the European Journal of International Security, Aiko Holvikivi and Audrey Reeves explore how the Women, Peace and Security agenda has broadened to make space for women in conflict zones and also for refugee women in Europe’s borderlands.…
This summer has seen mobilization on an unprecedented scale, as people have taken to the streets to demand action against police violence and systemic anti-Black racism.…
What are the best ways to help people and societies adopt sustainable lifestyles? Where should charities, NGOs and decision-makers put their money and effort?…
On June 30th the Higher Education website initially launched with a small selection of 80 online textbooks, with more titles due to be added throughout the following months.…
How do societies and organizations manifest resilience in a crisis, and why are some more resilient than others? This question animates the Management and Organization Review’s Resilience Forum.…
In this post, John J. Heslen expands on his article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
The 1926 Slavery Convention fixed the definition of the term ‘slavery’ in international law. Article 1 (1) of the Convention states that ‘slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised’.…
Introduction Many state governments of India have amended their labour laws in the wake of the economic crisis posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
This post was originally published on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s website and can be accessed here. The devastating human rights implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic have been thoroughly documented: Civil society has exposed the failure of many governments to protect their citizens and of many businesses to respect human rights in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights.…
Dear Readers, As teaching in a memorable pandemic-time term draws to an end, we are most happy to add to your summer reading list: the latest issue of the German Law Journal!…
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law.…
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
The parliamentary tug-of-war over the ‘Responsible Business Initiative’ (RBI) has come to a preliminary end. It is now certain that the Swiss public will vote on the popular initiative, which aspires to introduce the responsibility of businesses for human rights and the environment abroad into the Swiss Federal Constitution.…
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
The British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) has awarded the Wallace Breem Memorial Award 2020 to Lesley Dingle, from the University of Cambridge’s Squire Law Library, for her work in establishing and developing the Eminent Scholars Archive (ESA).…
The difficult climate of contemporary academia (research exercises, managerialism, limited funding, etc) can be especially harsh for early career scholars. This is even more true in these extraordinary times of academic social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which they are forced to work from home without their friends, colleagues and supervisors.…
Last year This time last year, the British & Irish Assocation of Law Librarians (BIALL) met on the south coast of England for its annual conference in the setting of the Bournemouth International Centre to celebrate 50 years since the establishment of the Association in 1969.…
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented one in terms of its reach and pervasiveness, and it exposed the vulnerabilities of the global social, political, and economic system. That said, its impact on countries has been uneven and this unevenness depended heavily on the position countries were in immediately prior to the crisis. In Turkey, the key issue of youth un/employment emerged as one of the long-lasting ones since it was a major challenge before the crisis. Policy-making emerged as another key issue as the ability to generate long-term planning escaped Turkey and countries alike for a while. Regardless of when we will get past the pandemic, the post-COVID-19 world will be an extremely difficult one.
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis; “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”. Please give us a nutshell summary of your nominated article, “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”.…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner; “Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought.”…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson; “A Tale of Two Liberalisms?…
Last year the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) celebrated its 50th anniversary. A year on and the feature article in the spring 2020 issue of Legal Information Management (LIM) marks 50 years since the journal was launched in 1970.…
We live in an age of great political fortunes. It is hardly the first. During the 1860s and 1870s, party politics was an enticing way for the ambitious to get rich quick.
We are honored to officially start our editorship of the American Political Science Review. We do so with great excitement, but also with some solemnity.…
Whistleblowers have become essential watchdogs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In my recent article in the European Journal of Risk Regulation I discuss the main whistleblowing cases in China, the USA and Europe showing how workers, especially medical workers, are not only on the front line of dealing with this global crisis, but also confronting censorship of information by governments and authorities.…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
The recent gas leak from the LG polymer gas plant has wreaked havoc in the town of Visakhapatnam in India. A toxic gas – styrene – leaked at around 3 am on May 7 from LG Polymer, a South-Korean-owned local plastic-manufacturing plant.…
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Quebec’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Greg Marchildon [1] [2] Amélie Quesnel-Vallée [2] [3] Madeline King [2] Antonina Maltsev [2] [1] Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto [2] North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies [3] McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms, Department of Sociology and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Background and Scope Quebec has been the hardest hit jurisdiction in Canada yet among the first provinces to begin reopening.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Albania’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Andi Hoxhaj, University of Warwick The coronavirus pandemic officially started in Albania on 8th of March when the Ministry of Health announced the country’s first cases – a father and son who had travelled from Italy to Albania.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Poland’s response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko As of 8th May Poland has reported a total of 15,200 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 5,184 recoveries; 9,260 active cases (2% being serious or critical) and 756 deaths associated with the disease (20 deaths per 1 million inhabitants).…
Drawing upon his Open Access article in vol.5, no.1 of the European Journal of International Security, Patrick A. Mello explores the withdrawal of democracies from the Iraq war as a form of coalition defection.…
In the past few months Universities around the world have had to adapt considerably. With home working becoming the norm teaching and learning has shifted to Zoom, Google Hangouts and other online video conferencing software.…
Conflict-driven societies are the most difficult places for exercising even basic human rights and are more prone to gross violations of human rights.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Ontario’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Greg Marchildon[1][2] Sara Allin[1][2] Karen Born[1] [1] Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto [2] North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Background and Scope With 39% of Canada’s population (14.7 million residents), Ontario is home to the country’s largest city, Toronto, and its national capital of Ottawa.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Malaysia’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic YingYing Yew University of Oviedo, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Unit for Research in Emergency & Disaster, Campus del Cristo, E-33006, Oviedo, Spain On the 23rd January 2020, the Singapore Immigration Checkpoints Authority alerted its counterpart neighbour regarding foreign visitors that tested positive for COVID-19 and managed to get across to the Malaysian border.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Jordan’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Elise Tancoigne University of Geneva Jordan reported 453 cases and 8 deaths from COVID-19 as of April 30, among the lowest number in the world.…
In this time of coronavirus crisis, we are seeing many of the less well-off workforce in the UK and the West under stress.…
Dear Esteemed Reader, It is my pleasure to announce the most recent issue of the German Law Journal and remind you of our most recent Call for Special Issue Proposals (submission deadline 31 July 2020).…
Cet article est une traduction réalisée avec l’aide de Pauline Hoerner de l’article de blog suivant : All Eyes on France – French Vigilance Law First Enforcement Cases (2/2) The Challenges Ahead, publié au Business and Human Rights Journal Blog en janvier 2020.…
Cet article est une traduction réalisée avec l’aide de Pauline Hoerner de l’article de blog suivant : All Eyes on France – French Vigilance Law First Enforcement Cases (1/2) Current Cases and Trends publié au Business and Human Rights Journal Blog en janvier 2020.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
Referencing his article in vol.5, no.1 of the European Journal of International Security, Matthew Ford explores the roles of science and technology in warfare.…
Late last month, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) revoked its ban on imports from a Malaysian rubber gloves manufacturer accused of engaging in forced labour.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Brazil’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Elize Massard da Fonseca, São Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Francisco Inácio Bastos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) Brazil is known for its successful control of communicable infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis (Barreto et al.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
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