What rights do the children of Islamic State have under international law?
Mar 01, 2019 13:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The case of Shamima Begum, the British teenager who, aged 15, left her home in London and travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, is not a one off. Its now reported that a number more women who left the UK to live in the...
The law is closing in on Facebook and the 'digital gangsters'
Feb 26, 2019 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
For social media and search engines, the law is back in town. Prompted by privacy invasions, the spread of misinformation, a crisis in news funding and potential interference in elections, regulators in several...
If assisted dying is legalised, who gets to decide whose life is worth living?
Feb 26, 2019 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Since the British parliament rejected a bill that would have legalised assisted dying back in 2015, campaigners have continued to push for a change in the law. Now, the Royal College of Physicians is polling its members on...
The government's $2bn climate fund: a rebadged rehash of old mistakes
Feb 26, 2019 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Australias new flagship Climate Solutions Fund, announced this week by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, will spend more than A$2 billion on cutting greenhouse emissions by 2030. While action on climate change is welcomed,...
Explainer: what does 'intersectionality' mean?
Feb 26, 2019 14:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Intersectionality a word most commonly used in relation to feminism can be hard to define and easy to abuse. Still, it remains essential for analysing and changing patterns of inequality and injustice. Put simply,...
The survivors of clergy sexual abuse who finally pushed the Vatican to recognize the problem
Feb 19, 2019 17:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Law
The Vaticans decision to defrock Cardinal Theodore McCarrick comes just days before the worlds leading bishops gather in Rome for a summit on the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The bishops were instructed to meet with...
Indict or shut up: The public may never see a report from Mueller's investigation
Feb 19, 2019 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
Almost from the day of Robert Muellers appointment as special counsel, the media and the public have expected that his investigation will end with a report to either the Congress or the public or both. Im a law school...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects