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Human Rights
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April 14, 2026
The Problem of Personhood
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti…
April 10, 2026
Global Business and Local Struggle
In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs…
April 9, 2026
The Coroner’s Silence
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captur…
March 20, 2026
Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts
In Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Maria A. Sanchez tackles a central tension in global governance: h…
March 17, 2026
Queering UK Refugee Law
Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives a v…
March 9, 2026
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …
March 4, 2026
Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain
Throughout the twentieth century, many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. …
March 3, 2026
Reparations and the Human
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new in…
February 26, 2026
A Light in the Tower
A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for how…
February 14, 2026
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists (Cornell UP, 2024), relays the events in Bhutan th…
February 13, 2026
The Pathology of Plenty
In Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (Bloomsbury 2025), Lys Kulamadayil offers a crucial examination of how international la…
February 12, 2026
The Power of the State
When young people began disappearing in Argentina, their mothers searched for answers. Despite laws prohibiting protests and political gatherings, the…
February 8, 2026
Roadblock Politics
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Cent…
January 31, 2026
Martialling Peace
Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeepi…
January 29, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flour…
January 23, 2026
The Coroner's Silence
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captur…
January 11, 2026
Never Again
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Ba…
January 11, 2026
Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a…
January 6, 2026
Still Life with Bones
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensi…
December 26, 2025
Prison Born
With rigorous scrutiny and deep care, Robin Hansen's Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow (U Regina Press, 2024) offers cr…