I, like many, am deeply saddened by the news of the violent death of David Kato, a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist. David was murdered in his home on 26 January in a village near Kampala. Although the motives for his murder are not yet confirmed, it is highly...
What is the role of legal education, what does it mean to learn the law? The law teacher’s first duty is to understand and teach the language of justice, the breath, spirit and equity that should move the body of law. A law without justice is dead letter, body without...
Shooting in the flesh is the high point of social oppression. All the stones torn from the pavement and thrown at the shields of cops or at the façades of commercial temples; all the flaming bottles that traced their orbits in the night sky; all the barricades erected...
A quick suggestion of reading from here: In the report we aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the development and implementation of the ‘terrorism lists’ over the last decade and document the crisis of legitimacy that is currently facing. Since the inception of...
The recent case of the ‘UKM Four’ has triggered a new wave of public debate in Malaysia regarding the infamous Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA, or AUKU in Malaysian). This piece of legislation – passed at the height of student...
On 24th October 2010 the Iranian state radio announced that new restrictions were imposed upon 12 social sciences that are considered to be based on Western intellectual currents and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings. The list includes law, philosophy,...
