In this post Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia discusses human rights issues arising in the context of extreme violence and prisons
Category: Human Rights Law and Theory
Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism
In this post, Dr Peter Coe discusses Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism
The Carceral State vs Indigenous Women’s Lives: Battling Contexts in the Latest Supreme Court of Canada Decision
In this post, Dr Meghan Campbell discusses the Canadian Supreme Court’s decision in R v Sharma and its potential impact on Canadian equality laws
The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR – Part III
The Birmingham Law School Blog is delighted to host a three-part interview with Georgios A. Serghides, a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, discussing his new book The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR: The Norm of All Norms and the Method of All Methods (Strasbourg 2022). In this third and final part, Professor Natasa Mavronicola asks about his views on the principle of effectiveness in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights
The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR – Part II
The Birmingham Law School Blog is delighted to host a three-part interview with Georgios A. Serghides, a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, discussing his new book The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR: The Norm of All Norms and the Method of All Methods (Strasbourg 2022), In Part II, Professor Natasa Mavronicola asks about his views on positive obligations on states to protect ECHR rights, and the ECHR as a living instrument.
The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR – Part I
The Birmingham Law School Blog is delighted to host a three-part interview with Georgios A. Serghides, a judge of the European Court of Human Rights. Mr Serghides sat down with Professor Natasa Mavronicola to discuss his new book: The Principle of Effectiveness and its Overarching Role in the Interpretation and Application of the ECHR: The Norm of All Norms and the Method of All Methods (Strasbourg 2022).
The UK’s Rwandan Refugee Plan is Postcolonialism in Action
in this post, Sean Madden discusses and critiques the UK Government’s Rwanda refugee plan. The plan to transport vulnerable refugees 4000 miles from Britain to East Africa is widely-acknowledged to be immoral and illegal, but it represents only one element of a wider, historic injustice, that continually impacts asylum seekers and Rwandan domestic communities alike.
Counterhegemonic narratives to human rights and the racialising work in becoming ‘human’
In this post, Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim, a lecturer at the Birmingham Law School examines her research concerning counter-hegemonic approaches to human rights, to uncover relationship between racism and the understanding of agency in human rights
Colonialism and International Law made refugees inevitable – Britain can’t ignore its responsibilities now
In this post, Sean Madden, a PhD candidate at Birmingham Law School, discusses connection between colonialism and modern problem of refugees