Regulations that limit fundamental human rights should be accompanied by a transparent risk and benefit analysis.
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This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
Many gun rights advocates claim that the right to carry guns is a universal right that has spanned centuries and nations. History tells a different story.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that you have a constitutional right to have a gun in your home. Now, the justices will consider how far outside of the home that right extends.
Former President Trump is asking the courts to do what tycoon Trump once would have denounced: tell some of America’s most powerful corporations that they have no choice who they do business with.
The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
Trump supporters have staked a claim to the US Constitution and the founding era of the country in their battle against what they perceive as an ‘illegitimate’ government.
While South Africa should pay careful attention to all its existing trade and economic relations, particular attention should go to its intra-African economic relations.
The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the constitution.
A scholar of militia movements describes the ‘peculiar’ – and erroneous – principles that right-wing militias subscribe to, including believing themselves to be defenders of the Bill of Rights.
A 6-3 conservative court will hear a broader range of controversial cases, shift interpretations of individual rights and put more pressure on local democracy to make policy decisions.
The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out.
No one involved in local government wants to see federal law enforcement agents take over their policing. But a mayor who’s also a legal scholar says there’s history and precedent for it.
The fundamental structure of the current constitution, which is cast in classical Westminster conceptions, is unsuited for modern-day constitutionalism.
The judgment creates a new layer of uncertainty in an already highly fluid situation and heaps further unwelcome pressure onto government.
For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, citizens have had to accept stringent restrictions on their normal civil liberties.
Until NZ is no longer in a state of emergency, authorities have exceptional powers over people’s lives – from telling people to stay home, to potentially making vaccinations or testing mandatory.
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
Objections raised about the school syllabus by parents, schools and civil society point to a bigger problem with the state.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Dean, Anthony Mason Professor and Scientia Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Professor of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance, University of Cape Town
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Legal Researcher, UNSW Sydney
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Ansgar Koene es Amigo de The Conversation.
Senior Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy, UnBias, University of Nottingham
