In this article we examine the encounter between global human rights ideas and domestic discourses of civil rights and social justice, focusing on processes of translation and adaptation of women’s human rights in two ethnographic sites in New York City. The first site is a citywide coalition...

This article illustrates how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) reversed its jurisprudence on adoption by single homosexual individuals, and describes the consequences of this decision within the French legal system

Increasingly, courts around the world are recognising the importance of redressing state violations of constitutional rights with monetary compensation. In countries where tort liability in private law remains underdeveloped, such as Bangladesh, compensation in public law becomes the only viable...

Book review of Tan Hsien-Li, The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalizing Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pages i-xiii 308: ISBN: 978-1-107-00449-8 (Hardback)

Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...

Capitalism involves an erasure of the past, alongside the never-to-be-realised promise of a glowing future. As such, the temporality of capitalism is that of a recurrent present. This is the context in which enquiries about the past(s), present and possible futures of human rights are conducted....

Since the dawn of human civilisation the corporate class has been a very influential position as far as the framing of law and policies of a nation is concerned. On the one hand, with the advent of industrialisation in Europe, the market economy was boosted, on the other hand, several cases of...

This article presents a series of reflections on the links between the economy and human rights in times of Covid-19. It argues that the economy and human rights are not incompatible and criticises “the economy first” approach that some governments are promoting, as it leads to the worst of...

The fundamental originating principle of law and economics (L&E) is that legal decisions should be (and are) based on maximizing efficiency. But L&E proponents do not define “efficiency” in the way agreed to by most economists, as Pareto Efficiency. A Pareto optimal condition is obtained...