The author paints with a deliberately broad brush, beginning with a rapid traverse of changing attitudes within the Commonwealth to methods of rights protection. The article then asks why there have been such changes, and discusses, with some reference to the freedom of expression, how those...

This article presents an extensive and global survey on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the COVID-19 epidemic and a comprehensive discussion of the ethical and human rights implications of AI's deployment during the pandemic. AI applications contributed to the COVID-19...

This chapter proposes a theoretical framework in which the absence or the presence of cross-fertilization depends on how a court and its judges strike the balance between the potential persuasive value of external citations and the potential concerns about deference that may arise from grounding...

Climate change challenges the resiliency and integrity of social and legal systems worldwide. Responding to climate change requires us to think systematically – and ambitiously – about how to engage the rule of law as a tool in efforts to limit the causes and consequences of climate change....

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a symposium in the Emory Law Journal honoring the extraordinary scholarly career of Michael J. Perry. In it I address some of the difficulties presenting themselves in contemporary literature on human rights. It is widely acknowledged that...

Do corporations have human rights? This article addresses a to date rather understudied issue of the corporations and human rights debate: whether and to what extent corporations can be bearers of human rights, with a focus on the ECHR and ECtHR jurisprudence. In a nutshell, it argues that what...

Article 12(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights requires governments to recognise “the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”. However, the traditional focus of mental health laws on the...

Prof. Stephen Cohen, whose academic specialty is taxation, also has an interest in international human rights and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration. In this comment, Prof. Cohen asks whether states like Switzerland, which provide bank...

The bulk of criminological research in relation to Indigenous people has been narrowly confined to quot;Indigenous crimequot; and traditionally sees state criminal justice responses as the more or less technical application of laws, policies and procedures to control crime. Most...