Abstract. This article offers a doctrinal and empirical examination of US immigration and asylum cases concerning Rwandan nationals alleged to have been in

Dr Vincent Brown was charged following a seven year British investigation into the 1994 killings.

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

Since June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has prosecuted over a thousand people seeking asylum in the UK for the offence of ‘illegal arrival’,

Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

Abstract. In AAA (Syria) and others, the United Kingdom Supreme Court found the migration agreement, under which the UK could forcibly transfer asylum-seek

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating Most of the UK media stories about the record-breaking heatwave that struck in June failed to mention the climate crisis, analysis has found. Nearly 2,500 articles about the extreme heat – when temperatures topped 37C, a record for the time of year – appeared in the UK’s nine main national daily media publications. But nearly three-quarters of them – about 72% – left out any mention of global heating or the climate, according to the analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Continue reading...

Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct

Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...

In court, I saw two refugees jailed for ‘endangering life at sea’ – a new offence that punishes those it claims to protect

As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the …

As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the …

What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?

In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing.

Immigrant community leaders say the ruling that bars rejected asylum seekers from reapplying, may see people deported back to countries where they face danger

The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. Ho...

‘The Research Handbook on Penal Policy brings together an impressive group of contributors, providing readers with a remarkably rich and wide-ranging set of reflections. The result is an unusually val...

Cape Town will host a gathering of unusual urgency and significance, from 7 - 11 December. The 23rd Annual Colloquium of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law (UCNAEL) takes place at UCT Law.

DignitySA's landmark court filing at the North Gauteng High Court marks a pivotal moment in the fight for medically assisted dying in South Africa.

This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 8 April · 46min

Hormuz and the end of American hegemony