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Dr Victor Kattan on Verfassungsblog - Apartheid or Systemic Discrimination? A Connotative Reading of the ICJ's Advisory Opinion

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Dr Kattan discusses the use of the expression "systemic discrimination" in the July 2024 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the 'Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem'.
Date:
23 October 2024

Dr Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg publishes article on investor obligations and their interplay with the business and human rights framework

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Dr Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg publishes paper in the Business and Human Rights Journal on 'Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework', examining investor obligations under investment treaties and their interplay with the business and human rights framework.
Date:
03 June 2024

Professor Dominic McGoldrick publishes paper on Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in UK Higher Education

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Professor Dominic McGoldrick publishes paper in Human Rights Quarterly on 'Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England', examining the context, development, and significance of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.
Date:
20 May 2024

Dr Natalie Hodgson writes for The Conversation: The obstacles that could still stop flights to Rwanda from taking off

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In this article, Dr Hodgson highlights the obstacles that still remain to the UK government's plan to to send asylum seekers to Rwanda following the recent passage of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act.
Date:
07 May 2024

Dr Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg speaks at Community of Practice on Access to Remedy

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Dr Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg, head of the HRLC's Business, Trade and Human Rights unit, participates in Community of Practice on Access to Remedy event hosted by the Nottingham University Business School.
Date:
07 May 2024

HRLC Celebrates International Women's Month

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As we close out International Women's Month, the Human Rights Law Centre celebrates the remarkable women within our community driving change through their work across various disciplines.
Date:
27 March 2024

Dr Natalie Hodgson writes for The Conversation: Rwanda Deportation Plan Faces More Delays - How Did We Get Here?

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In this article, Dr Hodgson highlights the legal, political and logistical challenges facing the UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, announced in April 2022.
Date:
22 March 2024

New Policy Briefing on Informal Life Imprisonment by the Life Imprisonment Worldwide Project

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The briefing, co-produced with Penal Reform International, spotlights the critical yet overlooked issue of sentences that, whilst not called 'life imprisonment', can nevertheless detain a person until their death. Informal life sentences, if imposed, should be used as a last resort for the most serious crimes only, as they pose a key challenge to most criminal justice systems globally.
Date:
11 March 2024
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