Human rights & comparisons The ‘Tinkerbell moment”: why we should care about Comparative Human Rights Law 23 Apr 2019 The human rights contestations facing courts in different jurisdictions are remarkably similar. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include racist speech? What are the appropriate…
Brexit… Brexit as a secession 2 Apr 201914 Apr 2019 Unlike breach, withdrawal from an international treaty is in principle a lawful act. Article 54 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties allows a State to withdraw…
Comparative constitutional law Why Federalism Matters – Francesco Palermo and Karl Kössler, Comparative Federalism Concepts and Case Law, Oxford, Hart, 2017, 478 pp. 10 Feb 201911 Feb 2019 Why are federal and regional systems looked at with increasing interest? What are their objectives? How do these systems look like in times of globalization and supranational integration? How are…
Comparative constitutional law… Catalonian Independence: Unbounding a Blood and Belonging Constitutional System 27 Jan 20192 Feb 2019 Last November, the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would ask for long-term prison sentences for the Catalonian politicians who organised and supported the illegal referendum on the 1st…
Human rights & comparisons… NEW PUBLICATION: Hélène Tyrrell, Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence (Hart 2018) 11 Oct 201826 Nov 2018 Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence sits in Hart’s ‘Studies in Comparative Public Law’ series, which includes two closely related works: The Use of Foreign…
Brexit… Merris Amos – Brexit led tinkering with the UK human rights machine: minor adjustment or damaging blow? 13 Sep 201811 Oct 2018 Introduction For supporters of the broadest possible reach of human rights law these are troubled times. But for the comparative law scholar these are also very interesting times. Proponents of…
