This essay, originally presented as a talk at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis on April 30, 2023, as part of the Midwest LGBTQ+ Rights Conference and the Washington University Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series, takes up the new intersectional and anti-racist...

In 2022, the United Nations recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. The UN Resolution urged “[s]tates, international organizations, business enterprises and other relevant stakeholders to adopt policies, to enhance international cooperation,...

Voters use ballots to choose their preferred candidates or to express support or opposition to ballot initiatives and referenda. There are many and diverse rules for how these people or items appear on the ballot in the first place—who can obtain “ballot access.” Once states began printing...

The World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care is widely adopted by medical and scientific organizations as medical consensus on gender confirming care. Despite the consensus within the medical and scientific community, the legal, political, and policy environments...

Under the Fair Housing Act, housing providers must provide reasonable accommodations to a tenant who requests them if the tenant (1) is disabled within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act and (2) their disability necessitates the requested accommodation. However, not all...

Alarming predictions have been made about the potential for climate change to fuel war and other forms of violent or social conflict, particularly due to resource scarcities (including food, water and energy) driven by climate change. This article first charts the likely security risks arising...

The tax treatment of transactions under an emissions trading scheme is of critical importance as the taxation system has the potential to either distort or support the scheme. As pointed out in the Australian Government's recent discussion paper, the "Green Paper", the primary tax policy...

This paper focuses on the growing pressure to automatically exclude suspected terrorists from refugee status since the late 1990s including exclusion based on mere membership of terrorist organizations. As the first part of this paper shows, such pressure has emanated from the UN General...

There has been considerable ambivalence in the response of the international community and different national governments towards the problem of how to respond to individual terrorist acts and sustained campaigns of terrorist violence. Responses vacillate between a desire to punish and deter...

Climate change poses a severe threat to many cultural heritage sites. Threats include floods, increasing extreme weather events, desertification, deterioration of permafrost, and the decay of cultural landscapes. Protecting cultural heritage sites proves to be very difficult as they are very...