This is my response to the public consultation on the rules of procedure (the 15th draft) for the European Unified Patent Court (UPC) that the UPC Committee conducted between June and September 2013. The focus is put on constitutional implications and conflicts of interests.The key points are:...

There is a growing movement gaining momentum to contest the legality and legitimacy in a health and human rights context, of widely accepted social, customary, traditional and religious practices - a problem complicated by the apparent division among native women on the very important question...

This article supports a new theoretical approach to the utilization of human rights treaties in refugee status adjudications in domestic courts. The existing literature on treaty effectiveness is divided between several optimistic and pessimistic perspectives, none of which adequately predict...

The Tulsa Race Massacre was and remains a dark and tragic disgrace for Oklahoma and the entire United States. Black citizens were killed, thousands were left homeless, and 35 blocks of the wealthy community known as Black Wall Street were burned to the ground during the attack. The accumulation...

Racial capitalism is a conceptual framework that illuminates the relationship between race and class in the global economy. The concept of racial capitalism has spawned a vast interdisciplinary literature reflecting multiple theoretical perspectives on the various ways that race and class (along...

This Article discusses the traditional African concept of ubuntu, which is frequently cited in South African jurisprudence, and analyzes South Africa's lack of compliance with the human rights of orphans and vulnerable children whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. The Constitution of the...