Law
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Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights
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Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights By Joshua Taylor and Alice Taylor-Kirby Last month, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia. Hailed as ‘a triumph for both the country and the court’ and ‘a simple and profound victory for L.G.B.T. civil…
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Seasonality and Policymaking in Sub-Saharan Africa
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By Parth Ahya and Justin Graham Ahmadu is a farmer in northeastern Nigeria. His life is shaped by seasons. The best time of the year is October. In October, Ahmadu can sell several bags of his newly harvested grains for a small profit. Over the following 2–3 months, Ahmadu can afford to pay his children’s…
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The Lorax and Legal Standing
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The year before publication of Christopher Stone’s seminal article ‘Should Trees have Standing?’ in the Southern California Law Review, another American environmentalist made an important, if overlooked, contribution to the debate on public interest litigation. “I am the Lorax…I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” Apart from a recent US Court…
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What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Big Tech
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In April, I published the following blog post here on my personal blog New Intrigue and on the Oxford Political Review. A few months later, I was told to take down the post or get fired from my then job as a public servant in the Australian Federal Government. Although the post had no criticism of the government…
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Southeast Asia has a synthetic drug problem, China has key stake in fixing it.
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Barrels of precursor chemicals seized by Myanmar police and military in Shan State. Photograph: Myanmar Police/UNODC/via Reuters Beijing has gained momentum in its bid for regional dominance in Southeast Asia. Fuelled by notions of Chinese largesse, high-tech industrial and infrastructure development, and an ongoing surge of tactical investments pouring into the region in recent years,…
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Are Human Rights Claims Mechanisms an adequate Social Justice tool to Address Inequality?
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Introduction: Equality, as a concept, is not necessarily complex or abstract. It is grounded in the idea that ‘everyone counts as one and none is more than one’.1 Extrapolating from this idea, inequality exists where needs of some are disproportionately emphasised over others. This could be a result of numerous factors.2 It is likely that…
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Security and post-conflict reconstruction in Bangsamoro: Achieving Sustainable Change through Community-based Policing
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Michaela Espenschied is a Consultant currently working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other international organizations. The opinion’s expressed are the author’s own and do not reflect the views of UNODC. Varied levels of civil unrest continue within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), with the current…
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From the Simla Convention to the Galwan Valley: Four Propositions on the Sino-Indian border conflict
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De-escalation efforts continue over the clash that captured the attention of the globe in June. Resulting in the deaths of over 20 Indian and an unreleased number of PLA combatants, the Galwan Valley melee has by now been well-documented.[1] During a recent closed Hudson Institute briefing under Chatham House Rules, Indian civil society leaders and…
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On The Hagia Sophia Decision: The Hagia Sophia Decision: Does it stand the test of ‘Rule of Law’?
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The complex spread of religions around the world has often been the core reason behind major disputes. Whether it be the possession of territory or dispute regarding religious monuments, some of the longest and the deadliest conflicts have seen religion as their core perpetrator. On similar lines falls the Hagia Sophia dispute; a well-known dispute…
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Major Transformative Technologies and the Five Dimensions of Security
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Cyberattacks and data theft have received a rating between 3.5 and 4 out of 5 in the 2020 World Economic Forum Global Risks report. Our societies’ ubiquitous reliance on technologies naturally comes with downsides. It is now commonplace to refer to new technologies as transformative forces in the 21st century – with the attendant discussions of opportunities and…