Admin

Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part II)

Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part II)

Continuing the reposted series from State of Nature, the question is whether Fascism is making a comeback? Laurence Davis Seventy-two years after the end of World War II, the spectre of fascism is again haunting the globe. The important questions we should be asking...

Private Security: Twin Indignities

Private Security: Twin Indignities

The privatisation of criminal justice practices is an affront to human dignity. When we are acted upon for profit as well as for justified ends, the proper link between coercion, rights, and authority is lost. Ministry of Justice proposals could mean that all...

Radicalizing Women’s Rights Internationally

Radicalizing Women’s Rights Internationally

The recent "burqa bans" in Austria and Quebec appear to be troubling legal manifestations of the rising tide of Islamaphobia in Europe and North America. The news coverage of the bans coincided for me with a bout of reflexive angst regarding the recent publication of...

Fully Funded PhD Studentships at the University of Hong Kong

Fully Funded PhD Studentships at the University of Hong Kong

Applications are now open for fully funded studentships at The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The Faculty is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 law schools worldwide. Each year 10-12 students are admitted to PhD, SJD and MPhil programmes....

The Fallacies of Neoliberal Protest

The Fallacies of Neoliberal Protest

This post is an amended version of remarks read at a rally organized by Cornell University’s Black Students United (BSU) on September 23, 2016. Students gathered to protest the recent police shootings of Tyree King, Terence Crutcher, and Keith Lamont Scott. It is...

Constitutional Exposure: A Postulation for Democracy to Come

Constitutional Exposure: A Postulation for Democracy to Come

Ghetti, Pablo. Constitutional Exposure: A Postulation for Democracy to Come.Oxford: Counterpress, 2017. | B & W 229 x 152 mm | Perfect Bound on White w/Matte Laminate | 226 pages | Paperback ISBN 978-1-910761-04-5 | E-book (PDF) ISBN N/A | 28 August 2017 Now...