This dissertation excerpt analyses the imbalance between restrictions upon individual freedoms and the duty of states to protect the health of the population and reduce the spread of contagion amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreBook review: A Retrospective review of “Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now”, by Joshua Wong with Jason Y. Ng (2020)
This book tackles both the local and international narrative regarding global protest, freedom of speech, and Hong Kong’s particular place in the meta-discourse of human rights.
Read moreProposals to strip immigration detainees of mobile phones would breach their rights
A Bill currently before the Australian Federal Parliament seeks to grant sweeping new powers to prohibit and seize items within immigration detention centres.
Read moreUS Supreme Court Reaches landmark LGBTQ+ Judgment in Bostock v Clayton County
Conservative justice Neil Gorsuch played a key role in this important judgment, which protects LGBTQ+ persons from being fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Read more“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law”: Poland’s “confusion” between the Rule of Law and the Rule by Law
The rule of law in Poland is under threat after the ruling party lodged a series of lawsuits attacking freedom of speech.
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