The United States' debate of civil right to counsel has been shaped by the constraints of domestic law. The public discussion of the proposed civil right to counsel in the U.S. has typically treated the issue as one of basic fairness. The racial impact of the lack of civil counsel -- an issue...

While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s...

Civil rights policy at the state-level informs a significant portion of how laws meant to protect marginalized members of society is enforced. While past studies have focused on the many dimensions of civil rights policy, both at the state and federal level, fewer studies have examined the...

In March 2021, BlackRock Investment Stewardship published a short but consequential document titled “Our approach to engagement with companies on their human rights impacts.” This represents a significant move by the investment management firm into the global “business and human rights”...

Fundamental Rights in Europe are protected by national, supranational and international judicial bodies. Yet, the likelihood of discrepancies between the solutions reached by those bodies opens the whole practice to a number of problems and risks. Legal Pluralists claim that the risk of...

This paper argues that, in spite of recent judicial practice contributing to the integration of environmental considerations in human rights adjudication, progress in this field remains limited. This is so because of the prevailing ‘individualistic' perspective in which human rights courts...