This morning (14 November 2012) the Guardian reports on the case of Savita Halappanavar, who died last month at University College Galway, Ireland. It was, we are told, a case of “sudden maternal death”. The Irish Times sets out the facts of the case as...
In the UK there is a current blockade of the Crossrail works at Tottenham Court Rd by Occupy London, while solidarity protests are planned in Smith Sq.,London at 5pm, and outside St.Giles Cathedral on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile at 6pm. In Germany while unions have...
History has consistently lent its language to critical approaches to law. In contemporary critical legal studies however, this bond of engagement between law and history appears severely eroded. The words of history and the words of law seem to move further and...
From 15 November 2012, a part of the Occupy Movement in the U.S. led by Strike Debt will be operating a “Rolling Jubilee” which their website describes as: A bailout of the people by the people. We buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of...
Dr Riccardo Baldissone, Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College & Adjunct Researcher, Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Australia. Title: Humans’ rights: a genealogical sketch A genealogical excursus from the emergence of Greek nomos, through the...
