This article draws on the “substantive landscape” to illustrate the non-innocence of the term “community” used in international law to denote groups with collective and place-based rights in land. ...

This paper presents a new “Framework of Paramilitary-related Coercive Control.” Based on empirical research in Northern Ireland, the paper evidences how coerciv...

Barbuda, a small Caribbean country, won a significant legal victory before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 27th February 2024. The Court’s ruling, that Barbudans without a direct (ow...

Published in Landscape Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

NEW YORK - Access to affordable, well-located and serviced land is at the heart of realising the right to adequate housing, a UN expert said today.“The global housing crisis cannot be addressed withou...

Patrick Toussaint Loss and damage from climate change is no longer a future scenario but the lived reality for millions around the world. And yet, despite over three decades of multilateral negotia…

Christie Nicoson There is a notable gender imbalance in climate decision-making, with only around 20% of countries sending women to the United Nations climate negotiations,[1] and court decisions h…

Sean Rehaag (York University) w/ Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst) Hilkka C. Becker (Int Protection Appeals Tribunal) & Cathryn Costello (UCD)

Jamie McLoughlin Introduction It has by now been well established that Ireland – like the rest of the world – is facing grave climate and biodiversity crises. Indeed, the Dáil declared a climate an…