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Compensating Human Rights Violations: Damages Before The European Court of Human Rights
The Ghandi Research Seminar Series Dr Veronika Fikfak – University of Cambridge Chair – Dr Ruvi Ziegler Attendance is free Visitors coming from outside the University of Reading are asked…Read More >
Law School: ‘Axis of Protection’ Seminar
‘THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL AND THE FOREIGNER IN SOUTH AMERICA OVER 200 YEARS’ Speaker: Dr Diego Acosta, Reader in European and Migration Law, Bristol Discussants: Dr Ana Beduschi, Senior…Read More >
Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate
Evidence against a death row inmate in Japan is shaky, but retrial is unlikely because it would damage the Japanese criminal justice system’s image of infallibility and provide an opportunity for abolitionists,…Read More >
Rights for same-sex married couples to move around the EU confirmed in landmark ruling
Dr Alina Tryfonidou explores a landmark EU Court of Justice ruling which provides greater clarity and legal certainty for same-sex couples who get married in an EU member state, in a new…Read More >
12 years without an execution: Is Zimbabwe ready to abolish the death penalty?
Dr Mai Sato has just published a report examining Zimbabwean citizens’ attitudes towards the death penalty in their country which concludes that public opinion needn’t pose a barrier to its…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Walker Institute and Marie Aronsson-Storier
The School of Law and the Walker Institute, together with the American Society of International Law, held the Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law Symposium at UoR between 29 June…Read More >
Top UN expert’s resignation spells trouble for defenders of LGBT rights
by Rosa Freedman, School of Law, University of Reading Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN’s first Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has resigned after…Read More >
Armed drones in the ‘right hands’
By Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Associate Professor in Public International Law, University of Reading A recent BBC news article reported on the development of a new, smaller type of armed drone…Read More >
Supreme Court Brexit ruling: What will the judges’ decision mean?
By Dr Ruvi Ziegler – lecturer in law and researcher of citizenship and electoral rights at the School of Law, University of Reading The Supreme Court will determine on Tuesday…Read More >
